Blog: The Line Of Best Fit

Very few people have ever listened to a truly great album just once and completely realised its brilliance. But by the same measure, repetition is a technique employed by the more cynical elements of the music industry to hammer average, inoffensive music into the masses until they submit, admit that it’s alright, and toddle off to iTunes to do as they’re told. And so it is unclear whether the fact that Old Volcanoes needs a lot of time to bed-in is a symptom of a great album slowly revealing itself, or whether the brain is simply numbed into [...]