Like A Fire Without Sound by Should
Well today as you should know from my last post, I’ve been listening to music! In fact I’ve been scouring the Internet looking for new music to listen to, and I came across “Like A Fire Without Sound by Should” and I must say I quite enjoy from what I can hear of their music.
Seems the album is due to be released tomorrow the 26th of April 2011. So perfect timing on this post if I must say so myself!
You can find more information on them and listen to their music here with a free download of some of it:
It has been 13 years since Should’s last album proper, the complex shoegaze/postrock haze of 1998’s Feed Like Fishes.
While much time has passed, the core elements of Should have not wavered: the ultra-sweet male/female vocal melodies, the penchant for the unexpected, and the ability to find beauty in the minimal.
The band’s immaculately crafted third album, Like a Fire Without Sound, infuses the pop sensibilities of Eno and Yo La Tengo while maintaining the personal eccentricities and atmospheric flourishes that have always set Should apart.
Like a Fire Without Sound was conceived and recorded over a five-year period, and infuses idiosyncratic indie flair with pleasing pop sensibilities. Bookended by Eno-esque tributes “Glasshouse” and “The Great Pretend,” the hook-laden record is simultaneously spacious and intimate.
Eschewing the fashionable trend of burying production in cavernous lo-fi reverb and fuzz, Like a Fire Without Sound is not warmed-over 1990s-era Should. The layers of fuzzed guitar have been peeled back and the pop quotient is dialed up considerably, aiming instead to balance the twin peaks of soundcraft and songcraft.
The end result of these efforts is an unpredictable record that — like Eno’s early pop albums — endures and is not easily ascribed to a particular era.
Timeless yet out-of-place, it’s the unwavering soundtrack to daydreams of life’s losses and loves.
Like a Fire Without Sound will be released April 26, 2011.