LAST PATH, THE Blunt Synopsis
Description
'Majestic shoegaze post-folk-rock-doom-pop from this Newcastle trio who paint themost beautiful wide-canvas mucky grey hillscapes for the ear. No frills, all thrills'Richard DawsonBlunt Synopsis is the second album from Newcastle upon Tyne's The Last Path(formerly known as Bad Amputee). The trio have spent more than a decade patientlydeveloping their own language of song, using the interwoven vocals of traditionalBritish folk as a starting point for excursions into minimalist rock music, hypnoticrepetition and the blissful joy of an overdriven electric guitar.The band's earlier incarnation released debut album Convenience Kills in 2020 intypically reserved style. It met with deserved critical acclaim, reviewers rightly notingfolk and ‘slowcore' influences but ultimately unable to pigeonhole this elusive,mysterious band alongside anything but themselves.Blunt Synopsis continues and expands on their debut, the sound even sparser inarrangement but fuller and richer in tone thanks to the recording skills of Sam Grant(Pigsx7). Grant captures the band with the unobtrusive skill of a documentarian,placing the listener with the group as they play as though witnessing a privateperformance.This illusion is supported by vocalists Phil Tyler and Claire Welford whose unadornedvoices seem to pierce the barriers of a recorded document and speak directly andclearly to the listener, singing with a purity and honesty that feels out of time in the21st century. The ensemble playing and choice of sounds recalls Low at their sparsest,Necrophones-era Lungfish or even Crazy Horse at their most zoned-in. Songs unwindand develop with a restraint that feels like sleight of hand, stretching time in the mostmagical way thanks in no small part to drummer Robin Fry and the trio's telepathicknack for musical communication.Blunt Synopsis will delight the patient and the inquisitive, feeling like a welcomerefuge as much as an album: something with which to spend time, to engage with,to disappear into.
Titles
01. Sunbeam 07:19
02. A Silver Thread 09:43
03. Hardway 05:25
04. A Good Hanging 09:04
05. The Hand 13:22
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