It's time for Quaver's Quick Review, Take 2!
Do Make Say Think’s album, Other Truths may seem like a ripoff at first. For full album price, you get only 4 songs! However, the shortest song on the album is only 8:03, and the album has nearly 45 minutes of beautiful music.
The four tracks on the album are titled after the four words in the band’s title. The Canadian Band wrote these songs in the two year span between their critically acclaimed album You, You’re a History in Rust. The songs typically repeat their unique riff over and over again in different ways throughout each song, resulting in a jazzy feel. The only vocals in the song are moans from Akron/Family, another experimental rock band from Oregon.
The first track, Do, is hands down the best track of the album. The song starts off with a slow guitar riff, and you can hear the guitarist’s hands slide up and down the neck. Once the drums and bass kick in though, you feel more motivated. This is one of my favorite songs to listen to when I’m trying to get things done, as it gets me motivated. The stereo effects in this song are also pretty fantastic. With good headphones, when I close my eyes, I can tell approximately where all the sounds are coming from. The drummer is right in front of me, the bassist on the left, and the guitarist on the right. Do is a beautiful track, and is definitely worth a listen. Every time I hear it, something new pops out.
Unfortunately, the next three tracks aren’t nearly as epic as Do is, but still hold their own as fantastic songs. Make starts off with a slow jazzy bit, but doesn’t quite pick up or capture the imagination quite like Do does. It has some cool drum beats and some interesting harmonies, but the song lacks the appeal that Do has. It isn’t as driving. Some of those rum beats that come in about about 5 minutes in the song are beautiful to listen to though.
Say is the longest track on the album, starts out with nothing but some quiet, screechy guitar feedback. However, then a lonely bass line breaks the near silence, and opens up the slow, mournful ballad quite well. About three minutes into the song, the song builds up to a melancholy climax. A fun thing to do with this song when you’re feeling sad is to play it simultaneously with rainymood.com. The rain really brings out the slow, mournful jazz songs. Say is really quite beautiful.
Think is, in my opinion, the runt of the album. It is the shortest song, at only 8 minutes. It is the jazziest feeling song, and doesn’t quite build up to the same climactic choruses that the other songs do. The main riff is a slow jazzy guitar riff that is inquisitive in nature. As the ringing of the strings subsides, it feels like the guitar is asking a very open-ended question.
Overall, this album is a must-buy. All four of the songs are fantastic in many situations, and are calming and pleasing to listen to. As the average attention span of a human shortens, and songs feel the need to be as imposing as possible to gain popularity. Do Make Say Think has hit it out of the park with this one, and I would highly recommend it to anyone and everyone.
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Quaver
Do Make Say Think’s album, Other Truths may seem like a ripoff at first. For full album price, you get only 4 songs! However, the shortest song on the album is only 8:03, and the album has nearly 45 minutes of beautiful music.
The four tracks on the album are titled after the four words in the band’s title. The Canadian Band wrote these songs in the two year span between their critically acclaimed album You, You’re a History in Rust. The songs typically repeat their unique riff over and over again in different ways throughout each song, resulting in a jazzy feel. The only vocals in the song are moans from Akron/Family, another experimental rock band from Oregon.
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| The album cover for Other Truths. Good luck finding the title of the album, or the band's name. |
The first track, Do, is hands down the best track of the album. The song starts off with a slow guitar riff, and you can hear the guitarist’s hands slide up and down the neck. Once the drums and bass kick in though, you feel more motivated. This is one of my favorite songs to listen to when I’m trying to get things done, as it gets me motivated. The stereo effects in this song are also pretty fantastic. With good headphones, when I close my eyes, I can tell approximately where all the sounds are coming from. The drummer is right in front of me, the bassist on the left, and the guitarist on the right. Do is a beautiful track, and is definitely worth a listen. Every time I hear it, something new pops out.
Unfortunately, the next three tracks aren’t nearly as epic as Do is, but still hold their own as fantastic songs. Make starts off with a slow jazzy bit, but doesn’t quite pick up or capture the imagination quite like Do does. It has some cool drum beats and some interesting harmonies, but the song lacks the appeal that Do has. It isn’t as driving. Some of those rum beats that come in about about 5 minutes in the song are beautiful to listen to though.
Say is the longest track on the album, starts out with nothing but some quiet, screechy guitar feedback. However, then a lonely bass line breaks the near silence, and opens up the slow, mournful ballad quite well. About three minutes into the song, the song builds up to a melancholy climax. A fun thing to do with this song when you’re feeling sad is to play it simultaneously with rainymood.com. The rain really brings out the slow, mournful jazz songs. Say is really quite beautiful.
Think is, in my opinion, the runt of the album. It is the shortest song, at only 8 minutes. It is the jazziest feeling song, and doesn’t quite build up to the same climactic choruses that the other songs do. The main riff is a slow jazzy guitar riff that is inquisitive in nature. As the ringing of the strings subsides, it feels like the guitar is asking a very open-ended question.
Overall, this album is a must-buy. All four of the songs are fantastic in many situations, and are calming and pleasing to listen to. As the average attention span of a human shortens, and songs feel the need to be as imposing as possible to gain popularity. Do Make Say Think has hit it out of the park with this one, and I would highly recommend it to anyone and everyone.
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Quaver
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