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MH-267 Lymbyc Systym - Shutter Release  With a touring schedule that keeps them on the road seemingly more than it gives them time at home, Lymbyc Systym have miraculously completed their second full-length album, entitled Shutter Release. Magnifying the already giant sounds of Love Your Abuser was not an easy task, but with Jeff Zeigler behind the boards recording the album and John Congleton (Modest Mouse, Explosions In The Sky) shaping the mixdowns, they’ve managed to do just that. Instrumentation has become broader, arrangements more grandiose, and melodies more focused, resulting in a sublime second album. While the stacked keys and busy drums that defined their previous outing still create the foundation of much of Shutter Release, the Brothers Bell have added acoustic and electric guitars, majestic brass and disembodied vocals to their arsenal. On Shutter Release, Lymbyc Systym prove there are few better than them at reviving memories with sound. |
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| Reviews Summary |
| Haunting post-rock instrumentals seep into your soul - AP / Draws you in and makes its world the only one there is - Houston Press / Lymbyc Systym emerge clean, pure, triumphant. Rejoice, a noble birth - Strangeglue / It's beautiful, it's moving - East Bay Express |
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| The mellower tracks on Lymbyc Systym's second proper album sound like they were meant to be experienced in the photo on the back of the Arizona brotherly duo's album cover, looking out the window on the freshly fallen snow as haunting post-rock instrumentals seep into your soul. Of course, the drums don't seep or haunt so much as swagger, like a cross between Led Zeppelin's John Bonham and Don Caballero's Damon Che - particularly on the first track, "Trichromatic." But there's a melancholy majesty to most of the songs, recalling Sigur Rós at times (see the gorgeous "Interiors" or richly textured "Bedroom Anthem") as the Bell brothers felsh out layers of keyboards and drums with everything from strings and horns to glockenspiel and banjo. - AP |
