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Rating: Post-rock is that genre that has been declared dead many times, mmh but this is said about almost every genre, actually, well, I’ll delete this sentence later. Starting over. Post-rock is that genre with long songs, a bit repetitive too, let's be honest, with reverb-laden guitars and dreamy openings. Well, Do Make Say Think (I do things, I see people) are not just that kind of post-rock, a label that would be too narrow for them, or anyway out of focus. They are indeed instrumental and all that, the ingredients are there, but there’s more; in their pieces, there is dynamics, and quite a lot, the tracks light up and fade repeatedly, constantly creating climaxes. Very often, the songs are supported by clean guitar arpeggios and a never straight drum, which never just does the “little job” but contributes massively to creating a groove, one might say almost leaning towards funky. In this work, by now from 2017, everything I tried to describe is there, starting with “war on torpor”, the opening track, a ride that never stops, except at the end, obviously! But I won’t go track by track, also because the album is quite homogeneous, and the tracks always alternate bright moments with happy riffs and more reflective and subdued ones, but not for that reason (half)dead. Precisely because of this, the compositions always manage to keep the listener's attention high, so it’s not just an instrumental to listen to in the background while doing other things, on the contrary, it distracts me. Anyway, if I had to express the “vibes” of the album in one word it would be “lightness,” because in its compositional complexity, sometimes you almost feel like floating on the melodies intertwining with each other.
Do Make Say Think are Canadian, and somehow this is felt if you are familiar with the music scene from that part of the world, where it always seems that the bands are not just people who know each other and play together, but real, often extended, families.
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