Within the two years since Knifeplay launched their spectacular sophomore album Animal Drowning, the dreamy and grandiose Philly indie band has not launched an entire lot of recent music, however they’ve made it rely. Every winter, Knifeplay have expanded their low-key superior vacation EP, which solely seems round Christmastime then disappears yearly in January, together with a canopy of Counting Crows’ “A Lengthy December.” As we speak, they’ve lastly given us some non-seasonal music, and it as soon as once more guidelines.
In a message to their Bandcamp followers, Knifeplay despatched out a recent YouTube hyperlink at present. “Hey, ya’ll,” the group’s TJ Strohmer writes. “Here’s a hyperlink to our new EP so you possibly can hear early. Be happy to share it with whoever you suppose would really like it. I respect each certainly one of you with all of my coronary heart.”
As somebody who obtained that message, I’m glad to move alongside two new Knifeplay songs to you. The “Spirit Echo,” the headliner of the pair, is almost 10 minutes lengthy, and it earns each second of that sprawl. It’s like a model of Beck’s “The Golden Age” that rises via a number of ranges of heaven and blasts off on an airborne journey. “Cry Infants,” a canopy of an Elvis Depressedly tune, is shorter and softer, and it makes for a beautiful comedown. Hear each songs under.
No thought when this is perhaps getting an official launch.
