Time Space Repeat – Lost Transmissions (Samu)


“All profits made from this record have gone to charity.”

Ok, don’t panic, I’m not going to go all Smashy and Nicey on you and start grinning manically spluttering about doing good work for "Charedee."

But I think TSR fully deserve credit for this gesture during this biting time of economic crisis. There is a wealth of sincerity and passion on this album and you can tell that TSR are in this music lark for all the right reasons.

This band is a colossal mountainous range of peaks. At times the altitude is breathtakingly blue sky high and at others it swan dives into calmer darker depths of musical solitude.

Think Sigur Ros, Mogwai and whilst stirring in the chiming euphoria of Radiohead’s more upbeat numbers and you have TSR.

At times angsty, at times euphoric but with a plaintive anthemic edge that dares to step one closer to the edge and then happily plummets the recesses below. The guitars swirl and build in a post rock fashion but there is nothing uniformed about this band – They break confines with a thunderous tsunami of vocals, basses and drums. One minute it jangles with a brooding calmness, the next it erupts into fizzing shoegaze lighting sheets of sound.

TSR have pushed post rock influenced music up to another plateau. They should be looking down at the landscape with pride and their heads held high, arms aloft; for this is something to celebrate.

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8.5/10

Nicky