Years of Rice & Salt – Service Bell (2009)
- Alternative rock
- Post-rock
- Folk indie
- Americana
- Ambient rock
- Epic
- Mood music
- Alt-country
- Indie folk
Comment: I guess if you were alleged about a band
called Years of Rice & Salt you would have arisen some doubts about the
combo unless you are a fan of MasterChef or something like that. In fact, I had
some of them before listening to this 4-track issue. However, this is a
downrightly trustful one where pastel guitar chords are emotionally loaded to
drive down and up the slope of a picturesque hill. By listening to (Rearranging)Deckchairs
one could perceive fabulous violin-driven arrangements, which are soothing
and spicy at the same time. Ultimately you can perceive the album as a moody
and ambient – though in an unusual sense – one played in the vein of acoustic
post-rock and Americana style. At Plankton those soaring guitar riffs
are complemented by mind-boggling singing. At Splendid Isolation the
track embarks on with a blissful insight, and then stepwise will progress into
Americana music, which beauty is hard to describe. You just shall have to hear
it! The talk of mine has been about the idyllic outing, in fact, the ensemble’s
announce is about describing a shipwreck. Consequently there must have been
intriguing tension within the whole. The more you listen to it the more you get
aware of its greatness. This pre-eminent issue is a part of the discography of
Californian, US-based imprint Futurerecordings (great one for sure – it provides shelter for such great artists as Sunlight Ascending, Woodworkings, The Tumbled
Sea, Darger and many other ones).
