Ahhh. This. This is music to unwind to, to slowly dispel tension and to restore the equilibrium of body and mind. A single, continuous track that runs for some 68 minutes soothes and massages the senses. No sudden moves or changes, no extraneous noise, harsh edges, beats, just a vast open space that expands far and wide. Close your eyes. Relax. Gentle piano, mellow strings, tinkling chimes… a cello hums long and slow… until around the mid-point.
Then. Then things get darker. Clouds build and the drone gets heavier. It’s a subtle and temporary shift of mood that makes the return of the soft piano all the wore welcome, like the emergence of sun shining on a rippling lake. It’s only in the last fifteen minutes or so the band’s jazz associations begin to filter through, and even then, it’s so, so subtle.
Never mind the gaudy sleeve.
The Necks Online
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