I guess if we went back about ten or twelve years, we could call this “post rock”. Remember that one? Maybe they still use it. I would not know. My obsession with music zines ended quite a while ago. Electro acoustic avant pop may be one way to describe it. Layered vocals, drums, guitars, banjos, piano, xylophone, autoharp, glockenspiel and a variety of woodwinds take up vast amounts of sonic landscape. Add electricity and we have some organs, more guitars, bass, loops, tapes, treatments, etc. This sounds as if JIM ‘O ROURKE may have produced it.

“Easier” opens up “Yello House” with a majestic sound not too much unlike BIOTA or MIKE OLDFIELD’s better works with vocals and a bluegrass feel to go along with it. Like the instrumental BIOTA, there is a magnanimous prominence here on arrangements gilded with acoustic instruments. “Central And Remote” and “Colorado” both sound like a more acoustic ULVER (the layered vocals being uncannily similar). “Little Brother” sounds like a more acoustic GENTLE GIANT. After a while reference points start to become meaningless as this disc grows a life of it’s own. Wow, this music really relaxes me. And, believe you me brother, I could use that. Staring middle age in the face, dealing with constant poverty and now facing the possibility of becoming homeless, I need all the relaxation and peace of mind my soul can muster. Oh, well. Enough of my personal poo poo boo hoo. Go buy this CD and then send me some good bud to ease my worried mind.

- Herring

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