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Slow Six
Tomorrow Becomes You
Western Vinyl
Rating: 3.5 out of 5

Link:
Slow Six: http://www.slowsix.com/
Western Vinyl: http://westernvinyl.com/

It’s not until song two, titled “Cloud Cover (Part One)” when you begin to notice that there is something special with this band. Don’t get me wrong. There is nothing faulty with “The Night You Left New York.” But this band is more attractive when they loose themselves in obscurity, leaving the post-rock instrumentals to the late ‘90s

The cinematically suspenseful introduction for the first part while letting a single note hover in the air will snatch up your attention quick. It’s a matter of time before this song takes the shape of a crime film. Violins physically layer loop on loop and crescendos into a swirling climax of flowing drums and playful strings going all over the place.

How does Part II compare? It’s like the introverted brother who spent his time in the corner reading Gerard de Nerval. The song spins like a post-apocolyptic calm with sparse, intermittent streamings-turned-spatterings of notes that interludes into something that sounds like you heard on Dirty Three’s Ocean Songs, just without the drums and remixed by The Orb.

I could pluck through each and every song, but what it comes down to — especially as the album progresses — is that this is an album that is really just cool to listen to. The Nova-style electronics and the strings make for an easy listen that can either sit off in the background or be the sole focus of your attention.

Tomorrow Becomes You is a construct we are familiar with but this style of indie instrumental, we do not get to hear much of.

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