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ARTIST: The Drift
TITLE: Blue Hour
LABEL: Temporary Residence
GENRE: Instrumental Rock
BITRATE: 230kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 57m total
RELEASE DATE: 2011-10-04
RIP DATE: 2011-11-21
Track List
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1. Dark Passage 6:14
2. Bardo I 2:01
3. Horizon 4:29
4. The Skull Hand Smiles/May You 12:16
Fare Well
5. Bardo II 2:39
6. Continuum 7:30
7. Luminous Friend 5:51
8. Hello From Everywhere 3:53
9. Fountain 12:20
Release Notes:
http://thedriftmusic.wordpress.com/
http://www.myspace.com/trldrift
San Francisco-based band The Drift created its latest album, Blue Hour, with a
reliance on organic instruments. The purely instrumental band is composed of
Danny Paul Grody on guitars and keyboard, Rich Douthit on drums and Trevor
Montgomery on bass. The most compelling thing about The Drift is that it employs
the art of less. Subtlety builds through the simple use of bass, guitar
feedback, drums, and keyboard, everything coming to a pitch slowly before
settling back down like an ocean wave and then building back up again. The mood
is dark and somewhat brooding (notice the song titles), yet one wouldn’t
describe it as hard or hardcore.
The album opens with a heavy drums and bass. One bass line carries “Dark
Passage” all the way through, the drums filling in the gaps, the guitar coming
in and riffing in its own created spaces. “The Skull Hand” is a song that brings
to mind long, thoughtful indie movies, with the bass playing off the keyboard in
the opening minutes. An ambient feathering of guitar and keyboard stipples the
song towards the middle, giving it a sense of floating movement. The song
stretches across 12 minutes, never getting old.
“Horizon” is an engaging, upbeat song: it starts out with a rolling bass line
and picks up with a guitar hook almost at the same time the drums pitch in with
a firm pace. “Continuum” is reminiscent of some of The Cure’s more reflective
B-side instrumental pieces. The drums kick it off, the guitar chiming in after a
few beats, the bass line eventually weaving in, with an ambient noise, possibly
from the keyboard, finally kicking up an ominous undertone. This is where they
find the body in a movie soundtrack, or come to the decision that something dire
must be done.
Again, having an album completely carry itself on what amounts to the basics of
a rock trio is a refreshing treat. The Drift has potential for all sorts of
venues, from concert to movie soundtrack. In this day of abundant computer
generated music, it is quite refreshing to listen to this steady, meandering
album filled with poignant soundscapes.
