UK post-rock collective Winter At Sea came to the fore last year with their excellent debut Lorelei. The project features a different line-up on a new EP that shows a softer side. The four tracks on Unfound unfold themselves like flowers reaching for the first rays of the sun, an amalgam of pastoral drones, acoustic guitar, and neo-classical arrangements. Each note is played with utmost care and precision, creating a trance-like flow of music wherein textures are as important as the rhythm and melody.
Unfound is spacious and luscious, a dream that can be enjoyed while fully awake. And the good news is that one only needs to push play to relive it again. And again. Fingers crossed that a full album will be the next step in their development.
Winter At Sea:
Chris Chapman (Flies Are Spies From Hell): guitar, glasses, percussion, field recordings, piano
A.L. Lacey (Monsters Build Mean Robots): piano, voice
Grant Light: bass, guitar, mandolin, synths, programming
Andy Selby (Monsters Build Mean Robots): synths, programming, bowed copper bowl
Will Tomlins (Flies Are Spies From Hell): guitar
Unfound is released via A Cheery Wave Records (CD, cassette, digital).
Tracks:- Unfound
- We Ride At Dawn
- Unfound (Piano I)
- When Your Fingers Touch Mine Through A Sleeping Mist
HCTF review of Lorelei.
