Some interesting stuff, almost meditative, repeating riffs. A lot of the tracks sound like jam sessions, I can’t imagine they ever played the same version twice. The more structured tracks remind me of Cuban jazz. For my personal taste the songs are too long for what is happening in them, not enough variation to warrant the time spent on an idea. At over an hour the album feels like it could have benefitted from a heavy edit. That said there is some nice interplay of the two guitars, and there is a lot of variation between tracks. It’s all just drawn out a little too long.

It’s beautifully mixed, every instrument is given its own space and sits comfortably in it. It’s nice indie/proto-grunge sort of stuff with a bit of synthpop influence, and it’s like it’s been rinsed in prog rock and then wrung out again. The instrumentation is very cool, I like how swells of strings will appear out of nowhere, and then they’re gone again. There’s a lot of Pixies in there. A very rewarding listen.

A wonderful slice of bossa nova, a pleasure to listen to.

The atmosphere of these tracks is immense, for some reason I’ve never listened to this album before, but I can hear it’s influence all over so much music that I love, Nine Inch Nails being a big one. The foreshadowing of the hook from Head Over Heels in the previous track, Broken, is something I really didn’t expect. I love when this sort of thing happens in an album, it makes the act of listening to an album more rewarding than listening to individual tracks. Definitely an album I’ll be coming back to.

For a start the title track has one of the best guitar solos ever written. That said I had never listened to the album as a whole, but the funny thing is the music is so entrenched in the world it was all completely familiar. It’s a beautiful slice of Americana. The guitar tones are like honey, and the drum production is a dry as the dessert. The band produce fantastic performances across the whole record. Unfortunately the album doesn’t finish as strong as it starts. The meandering The Last Resort doesn’t feel as well constructed as the rest of the songs, and it takes a bit of the shine off, after an otherwise fantastic record.

Nick Drakes guitar playing is sublime, finger plucked steel strings that sound like a babbling brook, coupled perfectly with his softly sung melodys. The strings arrangements swell and float over the tracks but aren’t over powering, there is still plenty of space for the music to breathe. The use of other instruments, piano, saxophone, adds great variation, and steps the tracks up to another level. I’ve loved his music since I first heard it as a teenager. This is a perfect album.