Tangled Thoughts of Leaving "Yield to Despair"

Country: Australia
Genre(s): Instrumental Experimental Post Rock/Metal
Label: Bird's Robe Records
Format: CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: April 17, 2015 (CD, digital), May 22, 2015 (vinyl)
Tracklist: 
1. The Albanian Sleepover - Part One (9:59)
2. The Albanian Sleepover - Part Two (12:01)
3. Shaking Off Futility (13:18)
4. Downbeat (18:47)
5. Yield to Despair (15:23)

Line-up: 
Ron Pollard - Piano, Synth
BeHn Stacy - Drums, Noise
Andrew McDonald - Guitar
Luke Pollard - Bass, Samples

Description/Reviews: 

To best understand Yield to Despair, you need not turn to Deaden the Fields, but rather an EP they put out a couple of years later in 2013, Failed by Man and Machine. At the time, the heavier emphasis on drone, noise, and quasi-improvisational group buildups over piano-centric riffs, particularly on tracks like ‘(quakes)’ and ‘(tremors)’, felt either like a fairly radical departure or a momentary sidestep. In context of Yield to Despair however, the EP serves as a perfect stepping stone or bridge between the two LPs. Not only is Yield to Despair darker, heavier, and more indebted to drone and noise than ever before, but it is also looser, more improvisational, and more devastatingly beautiful than perhaps any of their prior work.

 Read the full review by Nick Cusworth at heavyblogisheavy.com

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