“When The Cinematic Orchestra released their last studio album, 2007’s ‘Ma Fleur’, the first iPhone was weeks away from reshaping our relationship to technology, Donald Trump was a mere television personality, and nobody had yet uttered the words ‘Brexit’ or ‘Spotify’. How much has changed in 12 years. The concepts behind ‘To Believe’, the new album from founder Jason Swinscoe and long-time partner”
“Pop music and patience are two concepts that don’t tend to play well together. The drive for most songwriters in the broadband era is to grab listeners quickly and keep them locked in. All the better to keep those streaming numbers rising and the fractions of a cent adding up. That’s never been the bailiwick of The Cinematic Orchestra. Though they’ve long worked in and around various strains of el”
“The Cinematic Orchestra embrace polish at the expense of their roots”
