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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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| As instrumental post-rock has largely faded from view, pushed to the side by the more exotic strains of noise collage and electronic soundscape, it’s easy to forget just how powerful the traditional tools of the trade can be when effectively utilized. Providing a reminder, brothers Jared and Michael Bell offer Shutter Release, a sonically diverse and melodically complex set of tracks carved out of analog synthesizers, fingerpicked acoustic guitars, tinkling found-sound percussion, majestic strings and purring horns. Worked out over a series of phone calls while the brothers lived apart in Brooklyn and Austin respectively, their third album is a remarkably cohesive affair, neatly unfolding in meticulously contrasting patterns that drift from evilly churning drums and majestic strings of "Ghost Clock" to the cooing lap steel and banjo and crashing cymbals of "Bedroom Anthem." To their credit, they pile a remarkably diverse set of sounds upon that sturdy template... - Athens Blur |
