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Other Truths [Vinyl]

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The last few DMST albums represent some of the most convincing, powerful and moving post-rock work since God Speed You! Black Emperor hung it up. While their earliest releases were sometimes a bit derivative and overtly self-conscious sounding, "Other Truths" moves faultlessly through multiple states, shifting through changes that are interrelated and mutually illuminating, always moving, always sounding like a single whole. Untrammeled gestures touch the essential elements of calm, agitated, monumental and understated episodes. When "Do" collapses from an almost offhand simplicity into a cavernous, deep and detailed semi-drone; when the chorus of "Say" jitters in and out of layers of highly articulated background; when the solitary guitar of "Think" persists in devolving to a lush, distorted and pitch-bent close you're hearing some work that is the unique property of DMST. They clearly still pursue ideas few others are even aware of, exhibiting a disarmingly subtle formality of both structure and content. Possibilities and innovations explored and applied with such devastatingly affecting polish in harmonics and in timbre that would make an explosion in the sky sound more like cap guns at 100 paces. "Other Truths" is a standout album from a band which, year after year, sets itself farther apart from the often narcissistic doodles of many and varied post-rock pretenders.

The first reviewer summed up this album eloquently. If you're open to an intense emotional experience while simultaneously enjoying excellent, technically accurate, "Canadian space" music (with tight timing) take a listen to any Do Make Say Think album. This band is phenomenal, particularly live! If you ever have the chance to see them, it's worth the price of admission (entirely affordable). A disclaimer though, post rock is not for everyone, but give this band a chance and I'm 99% sure you'll be totally pleased, if not moved by the music this band has gifted us with.

Continuing to perhaps own post-rock's most playfully unique position, there just seems to be some emotional weight missing from the chemistry, keeping the ambitious undertaking from grabbing gold.