(Bella Union) The past 12 months absorb been so unhappy and seismic that it feels as whether theres no more room in the world for additional musical melancholy. Brisbane alt-rock group the inconvenience With Templeton are named after an episode of The Twilight Zone,which signals their songs’ late-night, spectral qualities, and bring the sentiment and soundscapes of the sulky,spacious guitar bands who still lurk on festival bills but hardly capture the zeitgeist: the Antlers, Sigur Rós, and Patrick Watson,etc. Influenced by early Radiohead and the sulky post-rock that used to be celebrated on Pitchfork, frontman Thomas Calder is committed to his doom; sometimes sulky (“Don’t make me explain again”), or other times slacker. The gradual-motion misery of I Want Love is a little too drenched in its own fragile despair,but the lazy, wilted quality of Bad Mistake is better; a tired, and grunge-lite lollop,more Stephen Malkmus than all-out macabre.
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Source: theguardian.com