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My
first thought was, ‘ok, another instrumental post-rock band.
Thank god, I won’t need the sleeping pills tonight’. But
rarely does this hip breed of trendy dogs get so heavy in such
an efortless manner. “Buffle” is all that; melodic, trebly,
delicate and an all encompassing nice song with the indie spirit
everyone and their mothers and their mother’s mother loves.
Souvaris likes to call it ‘Erudite instrumental rock’,
not sure how smart these dude’s really are, but what I dug was
how “Buffle” goes from simply melodic and ordained and arranged
to quite Sonic Youth-ish. You know the guitars; I am talking
about how Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore like to scribble all
that noise, up and down from the thinnest to the fattest string
time and time again. These lads pull that off. It lasts less
than thirty seconds, so they don’t indulge. They tease you like
we are hungry noise rock fans in search of some volume.
“Quit
Touching My Ass” gets there faster, when loud is still ordained
and arranged, but the rocking goes on for longer, the cymbals
crash like waves on speed, the lows go lower and the highs
higher. The wave recedes well into the tenth minute and all its
set back to its original instrumental indie-ness. We aren’t
reinventing the wheel here, but like in the case of Fall of
Efrafa, credit should be given to good songwriting and A Hat
is neatly packed with it. Fans of Explosions in the Sky have
here something a bit more direct. The ambience is there, but is
passing, drummer Aaron Doyle is a busy man. Souvaris has been
together since 2002 and though formed in Knebworth the band
currently reside in the ‘birthplace of Robin Hood’
Nottingham. The four songs that follow and complete A Hat
follow the same ideas; clear guitars, ambient keyboard playing,
colorful drumming; somewhere between a dream and the garage
space.
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