I find this music very charming. It is suspiciously redolent of Peter Green-era Fleetwood Mac moodiness, perhaps inspiring the band name. If you listen to the track 'Dust' from Mac's Bare Trees album, you will hear what I mean. Dust was a filler track for the album, but is deliciously angular in an art-song kind of way. Fleet Foxes should cover this tune...
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It's been a while since I've heard nice hooks like this. They remind me a bit of XTC. (I wonder if there's an Andy Partridge influence here...) If you appreciate good songcraft, this is a definitely a band to follow. If the ideas here are good now, then it's worth keeping an ear pressed to their future work.
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Excellent song. The cinematic feel of this is really intoxicating, evoking a scene of watching a steam locomotive in the distance, and being enticed to board it—wondering where it’s going—much in the Kerouac spirit of discovering one’s destiny of being alone on the road to a brand new identity.Slow down fast train…you look so enticing…to take me away from this dreadful life…
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Interesting that this track is 17:43, almost the whole side of a vinyl album.
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[Given my prog-rock history (as a listener and player) I am somewhat partial to this genre. It was a time when virtuosity on one's instrument(s) was actually a virtue. Alas the etymology is now irrelevant]***I like Porcupine Tree. The songs are well-crafted, not too derivative, and influenced by the Gabriel Genesis.A re-post of a blog entry:As I listen to "Even Less", this is my analysis:Key:Form:
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