the fawn (the sea and cake)
I like these guys, a good deal. Very chill music… sweetly melodic, laid back, interior pop with a touch of jazz. They're jams, really. Subdued, melodic jams. Sometimes they blur together a little- there is such a consistent, subdued tone that one has to really focus in and listen to recognize the lovely, intricate differences from piece to piece- without that focus, the album flows together as nondescript, pleasant background music.
About half the tracks, after several listens, have still not ascended from the level of nondescript and pleasant… there are songs that I simply don't remember how they sound, they're just nice. In general, the tracks I enjoyed maintained that gently driven, rhythmic, melodic pace, but they found a hook or a movement to take things to a really nice place… for instance, "Sporting Life" has this endearing touch of high synth to really lock a nice sound into place (really reminds me of the Postal Service), and "Bird and Flag" is driven by a nice, crisp, light guitar (at the start, it really sounds like the Smiths). My very favorites are "The Ravine," this beautifully relaxed yet driven song, a quiet sense of magic or discovery in the movement of the music; and "Civilise," which somehow carries in its sound the plaintive warmth of a 90's love song, with a rich jazz influence.
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