![]() The joyous title track, Jettison, feels like a scene out of an art house science fiction movie. It’s a rush of pure adrenaline that makes the music feel like a living breathing thing. Booming bass and a light tapping of drums tame things into the explosive start of Emerge. A suffocating euphoria radiates the song’s core as you completely enter the liquid. It grows in intensity, surrounding you as you put your leg in. Think of dipping a toe into a pool of water to see how the rest of the body will respond. A lone splintered guitar begins Submerge. Time signatures are played with, and tempo means nothing at all.Ī rush of pure adrenaline that makes the music feel like a living breathing thing… Dueling shoegaze guitars melt into a thick sludge of blood beating from a broken heart. Strings attempting to bridge the thoughts are quickly stamped out as soon as they begin. Ruminating like a memory that ceaselessly replays in the mind when sleep is an impossibility, and anxiety reigns supreme. ![]() Finishing the song is an undulating spectrum of noise, like a million soundgasms mutate until they collapse.Ī hypnotic rotating drum begins Hold, making a dizzying and echoey headspace that’s impossible not to be swept away by. It floods the ears with a bass groove until a rich baritone monologue of a man breaks the tension. The mood is built upon but refuses to needlessly linger until it’s completely destroyed on In Air. Manic beats resembling blast beats, delivered by classically trained musicians, cleanse the pallet on Lung. Strings delivered so strong it’s easy to visualize them wrapping around the deep, trembling bass. Rather the marriage of an understanding of how things may have to be. The words and music hold no anger and no real overwhelming sadness. A woman’s voice speaks somber rambling metaphors of loss. Each instrument is given enough space to breathe, comfortably allowing the necessary distance between each section. ![]() Rory Friers on guitar, Niall Kennedy also on guitar, Ewen Friers on bass, and Chris Wee on drums and percussion, walk unparalleled in their genre and continue to show an ever-evolving sound.īeginning like a sketchbook of post-modern composers the two-part Dive starts Jettison. Jettison is And So I Watch You From Afar’s sixth album and these boys are certainly seasoned veterans to the instrumental shoegaze game. ![]()
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