While
In Snow might have hints of math rock or other various forms of straight up
indie rock within their sound, this cassette on the whole sounds like an
instrumental version of mewithoutYou.
There exists an album by mewithoutYou called “A to B Life” and the last
song on it (before the hidden track) is called “Everything is Beautiful and
Nothing Hurts” and it’s got a lot more music than words to it. On some level, I feel like In Snow took that
concept and expanded upon it for “ef*fort”.
Granted,
there are bands out there that sound like mewithoutYou but are not the same
bands. Quite a few of them are rather
good, but most are not so good. I even
feel like some bands that tend to lean towards the heavier side of post rock
might be compared with In Snow, but I don’t really have any to name off the top
of my head right now.
This
cassette can get quite pretty, with delicate notes formed around melodies, and
I begin to think there might be something else within the instrumental indie
hardcore, but then it does eventually kick back in with just loud and distorted
chords. On some levels this breeds
psychedelic qualities, but then again it’d be naïve to think that it wouldn’t.
Look,
I don’t see this as being just an instrumental version of any singular song by
any specific band. It just flat out
rocks and does not need to be compared with, well, anyone. Put this tape on, turn it up and let it take
you to somewhere beautiful.
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