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Boston's People like You, born on the ashes of post-rock combo I Kill Giants
and fronted by vocalist and guitarist
Chris Lee-Rodriguez, recorded
This is what you Learned (2014)
in a style that bridged emo, post-rock and jazz.
The singer makes no mystery of inheriting
David Byrne's neurosis (the brief jazzy instrumental intermezzos are all titled "Kneeplay", mostly dominated by
Matt Hull's trumpet) but wed to emo hysteria.
Nonetheless, A Song about White Supremacy is catchy while being impetuous over slapping rhythm.
Jazzy instrumental counterpoint highlights Everything Matters
while a stranger kind of counterpoint between guitar and glockenspiel punctures
the vocals in Regret.
Dreamy guitar, nocturnal rhythm and ethereal male-vocal vocal harmonies craft
an eerie atmosphere in
The Upstairs and Downstairs don't Exist Anymore.
The six Kneeplay intermezzos constitute a (mini)album on their own.
Verse (2017) steered towards a more melodic sound thanks to the addition of
Michi Tassey (vocals and keyboards) and to a more romantic trumpet, as shown in
You Need a Visa and Thumbnail, even bordering on
pop balladry in Sleeptalk.
The instruments prevail in the ebullient The Baker
and especially in the nocturnal and oneiric Eulita Terrace.
It also contains three more Kneeplay intermezzos.
However, it was a failed experiment because the new sound was neither post-rock nor jazz nor pop, but some kind of style in between that didn't quite gel.
They renamed themselves Really From in 2019 and recorded
Really From (2021), an album that blends dream-pop and post-rock into
brainy, mostly instrumental, songs.
Their method yields ethereal trumpet-enhanced elegies like Apartment Song and I Live Here Now and especially the
serene atmosphere of In the Spaces.
There is vibrant interplay and crooning in Yellow Fever and
Try Lingual border on virulent pop-jazz.
Several songs are lessons in contrast, alternating subdued sections with
sudden emotional surges.
However, the whole remains a bit superficial and ultimately anemic.
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