Below The Sea: Endings E.P.

This E.P. starts off with a delayed guitar repeating a simple three note riff, and through the next 5 minutes on the track it builds to a beautiful organic crescendo. The second track, "Until You Call It Quits", has the same guitar tone as before (reminiscent of the softer shoegaze artists such as "Slow Dive" and "Hammock"), and the percussion is a distorted noise rhythm very similar to what "Pan American" does a lot (though much less obtrusive). The feel of their overall sound makes me think that this is what "Ulrich Schnauss" would sound like if he put down the synths and picked up a Guitar and Bass. This album definitely skates on the fine line that is post-modern ambient and post-rock. At times the melodies of the guitars and bass are familiar to post-rock bands such as "Mono" and "Explosions in the Sky". Though the condensed nature of the tracks and semi-abstract flow of the compositions tend to meld this music more in the background than a lot of Post Rock that is out there. My one gripe is that the play time of this release is a quick 22 minutes; I wish that they would have extended the tracks slightly. I can understand why that chose to refrain from longer songs in order to prevent recundancy. This is definitely a recommend to add to your collection if you are a lover of atmospheric music.

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