Search - Do Make Say Think :: Other Truths

WAY PAST MAKE DO

Kerry Leimer | Makawao, Hawaii United States | 11/08/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The last few DMST albums represent some of the most convincing, powerful and moving post-rock work since God Speed You! Black Emperor hung it up. While their earliest releases were sometimes a bit derivative and overtly self-conscious sounding, "Other Truths" moves faultlessly through multiple states, shifting through changes that are interrelated and mutually illuminating, always moving, always sounding like a single whole. Untrammeled gestures touch the essential elements of calm, agitated, monumental and understated episodes. When "Do" collapses from an almost offhand simplicity into a cavernous, deep and detailed semi-drone; when the chorus of "Say" jitters in and out of layers of highly articulated background; when the solitary guitar of "Think" persists in devolving to a lush, distorted and pitch-bent close you're hearing some work that is the unique property of DMST. They clearly still pursue ideas few others are even aware of, exhibiting a disarmingly subtle formality of both structure and content. Possibilities and innovations explored and applied with such devastatingly affecting polish in harmonics and in timbre that would make an explosion in the sky sound more like cap guns at 100 paces. "Other Truths" is a standout album from a band which, year after year, sets itself farther apart from the often narcissistic doodles of many and varied post-rock pretenders."