Blog: Captain Obvious

New Wax I must admit that when I gave the new Glissando album its first spin, I feared another bland entry from the increasingly homogenized post-rock factory. Sometimes it's great to be wrong. Fresh from Gizeh's UK presses, Glissando's With Our Arms Wide Open We March Towards the Burning Sea feels austere and glacial; it will move you, however slowly. To delightful effect, much of the album vacillates between Richard Knox's desolate key arrangements and Elly May Irving's haunting vocals, though trombone, guitar, percussion, spoken word, [...]

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