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"I have listened to this album back-to-back over and over and still I find something to keep my attention. Wonderful composition and lyrics that serve their purpose of getting the listener to dive inside their lines of awkward substance, "...throw the horses over into time...", did I get that right? It'll keep me amused for hours. But on they go and the titles, such titles - 'Violent Goodbyes', 'The City By Ultralight', 'A Daring Tale Of Escape', all conjure up images in my mind, like a book absent of pictures to assist the lazy…They've gathered these moments to produce something new, something fresh and I have no doubt this will be an album I can return to in yet another 10 years or so and still find the same wonder that I realized on my first listen. As we approach the year-end I can honestly say that I have found what I can truly call my 'album of the year'. 10/10 without hesitation." Atomic Duster "Probably the most impressive aspect of Unconscious Pilot is how many different approaches the band uses and the different directions they take in their attempt to find the right avenue for each particular song (i.e. the perfectly titled The City by Ultralight). Never before has a song so aptly sounded like its title. Taking the first two minutes of its three minutes to filter in out of the ether and slowly turn into a song, it sways with fuzz and male/female harmonies to the point that it could almost be a B-Side off of My Bloody Valentine's shoegazer handbook, Loveless. And just when you think you've figured out the whole "Great Depression sound," they chime in with 70s horns for the beginning of "The Sargasso Sea," which is something like a soup spiced up with dashes of Belle & Sebastian, Evan Dando, and hmm . . .maybe earlyish REM? Throw in the catchy Morrissey loving "Violent Goodbyes," a Boys For Pele-like piano instrumental, and the last track, "Advents," which might have been written after one two many spins of Red House Painters, and you've got an album to brag to your friends about that you discovered it. Despite its ambitious variations, the record is entirely cohesive and not disjointed at all, a success largely due, no doubt, to the impressive production performed by one of the band members himself. Buy this record." Delusions of Adequacy "Extremely, beautifully tasteful fragile psych smokiness, caught somewhere between the Doors' rainy nights, shoegaze's calmer drone gaze and a bit of spikier energy here and there to offset that in turn…simply grand." Fake Jazz |
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