INVENTIONS FOR THE NEW SEASON

Many post-rock groups, in imitation of genre giants such as Godspeed You Black Emperor or Mogwai, tend to play very slow music. Not so Maserati, whose fast-paced guitar-driven post- rock with electronic space rock influences takes the genre in a fascinating new direction. Fast- paced, energetic, and with sufficient psychedelic touches to please any space rock fan, the album kind of resembles what would happen if Ozric Tentacles went post-rock; to that extent, I kind of see it as a counterpart of Hidria Spacefolk's Symetria, which approached a similar concept from roots in a space rock sound (as opposed to Maserati's roots in post-rock). It's a great little album which deserves the attention of a wider audience.