The Big Takeover
written by: Mike Pearlstein (Issue #57)
Durutti Column, The Workhouse, Yellow6....and now I can safely add TIAPOASL to my list of 'essential', guitar-based instrumental bands. The second offering from this six-piece, Montana collective, is nothing short of awesome. I'd like to think that the group's environment helped inform theses absolutely sublime sounds.
This is the definition of 'organic' playing. Don't let that, for a moment, fool you into thinking this mere wallpaper music. Nothing could be further from the truth. It takes a rare synergy of talent to infuse 9 tracks (or 'suites, if you will) with melodies this alluring. As with great films, this record should be assimilated, sans spoilers.
TIAPOASL make elegant, graceful music; They reach for the divine and actually nail it.
