THE SKINNY: The Slant's "The Makings of This House" is emotionally driven, progressive folk at its best. WEBSITE: http://www.theslantmusic.com/
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PURCHASE: CDBaby
If you're looking for extreme vocal prowess and a sick organic groove then The Slant will be right up your alley. The band is a melting pot of typical folk instrumentation outlined with heavy hitting drums and a deep back beat that have continually had my head bobbing during my exploration of The Slant's "The Makings of This House". Some tracks on the album are a bit gypsy in nature which makes for some weird song transitions as you listen, though its not unpleasant by any means. The style variety is often strange, but I suppose I'd be complaining if every song sounded identical, wouldn't I?
My favorite track, "Stand Fast", is one of the band's very raw, pulsing, and transient grooves where you can't exactly make out what's going on in the background, but you do know its some sort of drum serving as a snare. The song grows and diminishes appropriately until finally a mandolin enters the sound stage and you're reminded that you're listening to The Slant and not an old Death Cab song. This track ends way too soon.
What must be stressed, most of all, is that the group has an uncurbing ability to make an intensely varied collection of music. As I listened to this frustratingly short and teasing album, I found myself repeatedly checking my media player to make sure "shuffle mode" was off. This isn't to say that the tracks are unrelated or don't fit well together, but I was simply so impressed at the tone and atmosphere the group created on each track because it's always so vastly different from the previous track. The Slant are a great group that serve as a reminder to the fact that originality is underplayed and seldom heard in music today.
FAVORITE TRACK: Stand Fast, Where the Seas Are Black
FOR FANS OF: Porcupine Tree, Sigur Ros, Death Cab for Cutie
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