Blog: the bathysphere

Ptarmigan Our Ancient Friends Self-released, 2009 P tarmigan concern themselves with epochs more than epics, but on this tightly-bound concept album there's plenty of both. We're talking geology here so let's give it a shot: Our Ancient Friends is sedimentary but never sedentary. Igneous but also ingenious. Post-rock songs about pre-rocks. Somebody stop me. Songs churn and shake abruptly, as if laid out on some volatile fault line, but Ptarmigan handle their many transitions [...]