by The Television Sky
Melbourne trio The Television Sky (Maximilian White, Fabian Toonen, Andrew Macrae) brings us another half dozen tracks of piano, guitar and drums on their self-titled follow-up to its 2011 six-track album We Trust that the Moon Shall Guide Us.
Leading with the fabulous meandering 13-minute slab of proggie post rock ‘Dappled Tapestry Meadow‘ shows a band brimming with confidence.
You would expect the second track ‘A Roan Foal’ at three and a half minutes to be slight by comparison, but it more than holds its own. Who would have thought you could fit such a big sound into such a small space?
As on their first album, the song titles have a certain eccentricity to them: ‘…For Night Bares the Sorrows of the Sleepists’, ‘Autumn Cull’ and ‘Motes of Dust’ all evoke the band’s creative energy. ‘…For Night Bares the Sorrows of the Sleepists’is the stand out track. It builds from the dominant piano to the guitar taking over as lead with the drums filling the space behind. The crescendo is quite marvellous.
The other three tracks could be written for the soundtrack of an epic movie: big, sweeping, atmospheric. In contrast to the intimate cover art (by Maximilian White, the drummer) that really deserves to be on a 12-inch LP.
The Television Sky have honed their sound and created an album that extends their previous one. I’ll be very interested to see where they take it from here.
Chris Pearson
Pojama People, 10pm – Midnight, Wednesdays
PBS 106.7FM
This week's Top 10:
