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Inlet

Islet

2013

Inlet

Release Date:  2013

By Pitchfork

Reviewed June 2, 2013

On the b-side to their forthcoming single, "Triangulation Station", Islet go somewhere darker and stranger than they ever have before, which is quite a feat considering the band at hand. True to their desire to "play the room" (most Islet gigs see the walls and crowd repurposed as instruments) there's a tactile atmosphere to "Inlet" that sounds as if it was made inside a cave: a stony rhythmic splash throughout, dank, pooling, droning guitars, and Emma Daman's voice shrouded in echoes as she calls for curiosity and playfulness: "Without action, the old shit will grow." It's probably the most restrained thing the Welsh four-piece have ever done; the tide's out in the run-up to their eagerly anticipated follow-up to 2012's Illuminated People.

8:00 PM · Jun 2, 2013 · 1 Views