It’s been three years since The Drift released their debut album,
‘Noumena’, but this is purely down to the number of pies that each band
member have had their sticky fingers embedded in - one of these includes
Danny Grody’s ultra-prolific post-rock band, Tarentel. The boys did,
however, manage to fit in an extensive tour across North America and
Japan which has inspired a ruthless efficiency for song-writing that is
apparent on this new release. Recorded directly to analogue tape with
producer Jay Pellicci at the helm, the mix is used as another instrument
to shape each song, channeling the mythos of late 60’s jazz and late
70’s dub classics.
Full of ethereal charm and sweeping
instrumental soundscapes ‘If Wishes Were Horses’ features a soft,
fluttering trumpet, replacing the need for a vocal, rising and falling
to form the track’s heartbeat. ‘Uncanny Valley’ introduces shades of
afro-beat and disco-soul that weave their way to the surface injecting
new life to a recurring pattern. Much of what is on offer winds its
course down the same eroded river bed and considering its gentle nature
it could easily be viewed as repetitive ephemera. For me, however, it
could just be the perfect album to wash away the stresses of a hard day
as it floods your senses with its miasma of intertwining strands of
ambience. All you have to do is simply allow yourself to drift along.
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