Labels: Bearos
Review by: Andy Malcolm
It seems that everyone and their grandmother is putting out a post-rock instrumental record these days. Actually, I’d like to see more grandmothers in post-rock instrumental bands. I think they would bring some interesting ideas to the table. As well as some home made jam.
Anyways, Epic45 have a three song 7″ here, and it’s super lovely. Opening up on the spacey “Shorebound” they are playing on the Tristeza / Mogwai sound really rather well, layering in some distant, atmospheric whispery vocals, with the drumming prominent in the foreground, and the effects and guitars washing over in the back. I guess that’s why they call it Shorebound and have fuzzy pictures of the sea on their packaging. Appropriate imagery. They follow that with a song called “Sunset over Sea” and it has sea effects on it. The best song I ever heard with samples of waves on it was by Christie Front Drive on their anthology. That song is amazing. Anyway, this track has some piano and some plinky keyboard effects. This desperately reminds me of someone else, but I can’t think who. Probably Tristeza again. Anyways, they wrap things up with a b-side that is almost 8 minutes long and it is named “The Overwhelming Feeling (version 3)”. Which does the same synth laden atmospheric style as the songs did on side a, but for twice as long. Very nice. It briefly has some cool strange drum effects that sound exactly like the ones Christie Front Drive used in between songs on their album. That’s two CFD references now for a band that sounds only vaguely similar. Hmm.
Erm… Dreamy. And on lovely, high quality thick wax too. Post rockin’.