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    CST025   2xLP • CD • DL

    Release date: 06 October 2003

    Duration: 52:02

     

    Do Make Say Think fashioned a fourth full-length album of tremendous beauty and depth, more loosely woven than previous records and played with a dark, wistful restraint throughout. These songs are eerie and iridescent, composed and captured with mesmerising attention to detail, guided by the band’s most intricate and intimate guitar passages to date, full of delicate transitions and soulful punctuations. Many of the songs feature a newfound non-linearity in compositional structure that once again raised the DMST bar, imbuing instrumental rock with heartrending — yes, even hymnal — narrative ideas.

    More than any previous effort by the band, this is an album that demands to be listened to as a whole, or at least in the triptychs defined by the three-sided vinyl edition. Recorded in three sessions over the winter and spring of 2003, most of the tracks went to tape at two rural locations. The resulting campfire vibe on much of this material is reminiscent of the band’s second record, Goodbye Enemy Airship…, but with more density and complexity throughout. Mixed by the group at th’Schvitz, their Toronto home studio, the album highlights DMST’s inventive production touches, always at the service of the musical ideas.
     
      

    PACKAGING NOTES

    2xLP comes in a thick paperboard gatefold jacket with artwork and credits insert. 

    CD comes in a custom paperboard mini-gatefold jacket with a printed CD dust sleeve and credits insert.


    CREDITS

    Ohad Benchetrit: guitar, horns, keys
    Dave Mitchell: drums
    James Payment: drums
    Justin Small: guitar, keys
    Charles Spearin: guitar, bass, horns, keys


    FEATURED GUESTS
    Brian Cram: horns
    Mr. Jay Baird: horns


    Recorded by Do Make Say Think.
    Tracks 1, 4, 6, 7 recorded at the Rockwood 2 Farmhouse, Rockwood ON, January 2003.
    Tracks 2, 5, 8, 9 recorded at th' Schvitz, Toronto, spring 2003.
    Track 3 recorded at The Black Sheep Inn, Wakefield QC, March 2003.
    Mixed and mastered at th' Schvitz by Do Make Say Think.