Within the two years since Knifeplay launched their spectacular sophomore album Animal Drowning, the dreamy and grandiose Philly indie band has not launched an entire lot of latest music, however they’ve made it depend. Every winter, Knifeplay have expanded their low-key superior vacation EP, which solely seems round Christmastime then disappears yearly in January, together with a canopy of Counting Crows’ “A Lengthy December.” At the moment, they’ve lastly given us some non-seasonal music, and it as soon as once more guidelines.
In a message to their Bandcamp followers, Knifeplay despatched out a contemporary YouTube hyperlink at this time. “Hey, ya’ll,” the group’s TJ Strohmer writes. “Here’s a hyperlink to our new EP so you may hear early. Be happy to share it with whoever you assume would really like it. I respect each one among you with all of my coronary heart.”
As somebody who acquired that message, I’m glad to go alongside two new Knifeplay songs to you. The “Spirit Echo,” the headliner of the pair, is almost 10 minutes lengthy, and it earns each second of that sprawl. It’s like a model of Beck’s “The Golden Age” that rises via a number of ranges of heaven and blasts off on an airborne journey. “Cry Infants,” a canopy of an Elvis Depressedly tune, is shorter and softer, and it makes for a stunning comedown. Hear each songs beneath.
No concept when this is likely to be getting an official launch.