Blow Up Hollywood’s music has been described as surreal and dreamy and their new album “Take Flight” as a soundtrack for the introspective, an album of moods as much as music, that is hauntingly melodic and instantly captivating. With limited vocals and no percussive elements. “Take Flight,” despite its somewhat abstract nature, is still very accessible with the familiar sound of piano and some nostalgic synths. This album may require some attention to discover its slightly insidious charms, but it is attention that will be well rewarded.

Even with the album’s abstract nature, Take Flight is not minimalist techno in the conventional sense. Although the album reflects a glimpse of the early techno sounds of the seventies with some throbbing lethargic synths on “States Of Matter,” this stuff is a far cry from trippy techno of Aphex Twin. In fact this music – due to its dreaminess – has more in common with a band like Sigur Rós, if a comparison needs to be made.

This is a disc that needs attention to be made any sense of what lies beneath its quieted surface. For such a vague and unconventional release, Take Flight is fairly uncomplicated. And for its banausic nature, Take Flight is intense and marvelous; it all lies in what the senses are willing pick up from beneath the album’s blanket of silence.

- review from the dailyvault.com


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