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SUCCESSORSAnd So I Watch You From AfarPost Rock/Math rock4.09 | 2 ratings |
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![]() From the first notes of "Apanoid", this is indeed And So I Watch You From Afar, from the twinkling, dazzling electro-guitar arpeggios to the boisterous, unmistakable drumming and percussion of Chris Wee to their spacious drones. An at once huge song, it morphs and falls away to ambience. Perhaps, as I suggest above (and am more confidently with the following track), a callback to the Gangs era here. "Odd Seal" is something that hearkens back to, to me, their golden era, of All Hail Bright Futures (2013) and Heirs (2015). Super bright indeed, this track honestly feels like it must have been left off from back then. I mean, it sonically sounds like "Wasps" or "A Beacon, A Compass, An Anchor" from that second album mentioned. Even if it, therefore, feels like old hat, I love this sound. It's so triumphant and fun. I'm assuming these callbacks and familiarities is why it's the EP's current 'Plays' breadwinner. There's something about that era that not only holds up, but is when many of their fans finally climbed aboard. If indeed we are 'Succeeding' and calling back to prior eras and albums, then the 'bright' and gleaming "Radaghast" is of All Hail's 'bright' flavors haha. Very fun track. The guitar effects are huge, spacy, even heavenly. Overall, a fun release. Not sorry I missed it, as I'm happy to be experiencing it now.
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