Invisible White continues on the vibes of their previous Of Sound Mind. While that one shined in its Gilmour-esque moments and expanded longer-than-needed movements, so does Invisible White, or partly, which extends on the long romantic solos but kicks things off on a much more soothing note with a violin that’s just to die for.
It’s all delivered in a more compact way, a thankful move by the way. Invisible White is much more economical, about twenty eight-minutes- all killer, no filler - and no heaviness either, nor wasted moments. Where in Ancestors’ full-length the music took its time to come afloat, in this one is just a matter of about a minute and a half. Really, it could have been longer and one wouldn’t have noticed, as the title track starts one can always expect the typical explosions, the boom, the sudden sound crescendo, the blast, the fucking post-rock that drips every record with urine. But there is none of that here.
Not much has changed then, experimentation takes a back seat, psychedelic music is no longer experimental, and Ancestors pretty much just focus on something that pseudo heavy bands rarely focus on; making gorgeous music; of big scope, extremely articulate and nostalgic, with cinematic expressiveness and really, a delicate hand.
And pretty it is, as it opens, the album has certain romantique quality to it, certain Sunday-esque in the sun scent. As guitars come in, a female throat mmmm’ss…..and it is sweet alright, with cutesy strings and a meandering spirit. Once the aforementioned violin kicks in is hard to deny the Parisienne feeling.
“Epilogue” the third and longest cut, is vague but it floats, it moves seamlessly, as if the melody was carried off by water. There is piano in it and guitars that lack the density of a guitar band. That’s the difference between Ancestors and them (them being pretty much everyone else), most bands of this ilk are guitar bands at their core. They use and exploit the instrument because they base their music on the six strings and that's the way it has always been done and that's the way they were taught. Not Ancestors, clearly Invisible White was perhaps constructed on a synthesizer, or on a piano, or by staring at a grand images of old buildings that are loaded with stories, all without the aid of a Marshall amp. This record’s got heart.
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Written by Bobby Peru
