“*Imperial Metric* proves that I shouldn't give up on anyone. Appliance's previous releases, *Manual* and *Six Modular Pieces*, got on my nerves with their blatant conformance to the post-rock blueprint: two parts early Stereolab, two parts Sonic Youth, two parts Tubeway Army-by-way-of-Trans Am, and a dash of Plone/Broadcast bitters. It sounded like a style-mag committee drummed up the concepts, an”
