This is Peace Burial at Sea’s second album, after having their first album championed by the likes of radio legend John Peel, In New Music We Trust fiend Zane Lowe and the ever faithful Steve Lamacq. Thus, I am quite surprised that the band are not more renowned.
So rather than wanting to fall further into an unknown world or the niche of producing a less than impressive second album, PBaS enlisted the help of “…electro songsmiths” Trafik to produce it. Together they have created a fascinating dichotomy of dark rock and electronica. Twisting and turning through gloomy landscapes, tracks like ‘Somambulance’ have the ability to send shivers down your spine, while “Holy Terrors’ and ‘Take My Things and Burn Them’ do the same but also subtly (and sometimes not so subtly ‘Czarina Catherine’) hint at an uncontrollable rage bubbling below the surface.
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I think the best way to describe this album is with a simile. It’s like a game of table tennis, tracks bounce back and forth between a computerised, highly Placeboesque nonchalance to a ghostly and edgy Radiohead. Add to this a slightly Damon Albarn sounding lyricist and the result is something very familiar and yet so very unique.
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