Old Town Ways is on tomorrow's Listening To This Week Playlist and you'd be forgiven for hearing it and taking Birmingham Alabama quartet People Years for a great Pop Rock band. We like to listen to any resulting album as we are primarily an Album Review site and The Last Cantina reveals much much more.
Although Pop Rock and indeed Indie Rock are present, there are also footsteps into wonderful melodic Modern Prog that is so beautiful and adeptly performed and arranged. This is not the only direction that they take. For instance, Flood (Lighting Kids Escape) is more Americana.
But this is not the Americana that we run away quickly from due to its earnestness and predictability. Flood is across a magnificent 7 minutes plus. There is a longer song that here too, but more about that later. Let's get to the Prog similarities.
Instrumentally, Haunting Of Rec Centre may be gentle for the genre, but the arrangement and time signature fits Prog perfectly and it isn't long and over egged, it is totally engaging. Yet, If Me Make It Home Again is moody Indie Rock, again very affecting.
The Last Cantina has a Part 1 and Part 2. The latter has a wonderful rhythm track that combines beautifully with the main riff. Again Indie-ish, but much more melodic than you might expect from that genre. largely due to that haunting Guitar.
None of this prepares you for the 10 minutes of Part 1. This is largely instrumental Neo Prog. It is hypnotic, yet never loses its melody or wanders off down Black Holes. The Bassline is absolutely killer. The biggest take from the whole album is how it is so musical and that is solely down to the ability and invention of People Years.
You can listen to and buy the album here. It is available on CD, Cassette and as a download.
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