Wednesday, December 30, 2015

#1987 Elbow - The Take Off and Landing of Everything

Peaceful post-rock that seeks to soothe, that tries to deliver us, the world-weary and the death-obsessed, to something beyond. Admirable goal.

It works in places, those hypnotic churns, that rounded sound. But I couldn't quite get with it, held back by the similarity to late-era Peter Gabriel, in terms of Garvey's voice and the way its themes run watery by the end. To return to, maybe, when I'm less jaded 3/5

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