Taking a cue from the spiritualized School Of Sonic Density, The Great Depression creates drifting compositions filled with intricate instrumentation and Dramatic overtones. Guitars wash over keyboards with an intentional indistinctness and the vocals hold notes at half the tempo, swaying with harmonic grandeur. Volume swells climb towards the summit, where they combine in some ecstatic celebration. In the Great Depression's music, a sense of musical economy is overrated. Why not stretch three-minutes to six if the music and playing are compelling? The overall effect suffers slightly from overly - grainy male vocals - not the ideal complement to the otherwise smooth and lush instrumentation - which leads me to wonder weather the Great Depression wants to take these songs into the realm of ornate pop a la Butterfly Child or the protracted contemplation of Spiritualized. In the end, neither is such an awful place to be, and Great Depression's straddling of the two is an interesting point of departure. there, there used to be luke expensive stainless an underwater great get well soon lorraine called, she wants you to work so wrong genius