Familiarity can breed contempt.
This is an album of instrumental rock which covers all the right ambient/cinematic bases but offers nothing to distinguish it from countless other bands working in the same field.
Even the way the quintet from Dartford, Kent describe their sound on their second full length album is predictable: "melancholic yet uplifting, polished yet unhinged, delicate yet powerful"; quiet yet loud, they might have added.
In other words, it is pretty much what you would expect from a combination three guitars, drum and bass. The fact that none of this manages to engage on an emotional level means that it can only be appreciated on technical level.
The ten tracks glide by pleasantly enough in just under forty minutes but left this listener's heart strings untouched.
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