Third up in this short ongoing series of ‘Setting Sun’ presents being typed while in the midst of the celebrations for Christmas Eve (Happy Christmas all) has being a Birmingham (UK) band ‘Epic 45’ which is centred around two guys called Ben and Rob who are both friends of my pal, Anthony who also plays with them sometimes with them and also under his own name, July Skies who makes some of the most spellbinding and beautiful slowdive meets The Durruti Column imaginable.
‘Epic 45’ in a way follows a similar pattern to ‘July Skies’ expect for ‘Slowdive’ I on a personal level hear more of Mogwai in the sense where they sometimes raise up the tempo music wise in sometimes seconds.
This can be perhaps summed up on their second album ‘Slides’ which has recently being re-issued (quite rightly) on tracks like ‘History vs. the future’ which after some quite melodic beautiful guitar work with crunching, echoing drums (which according to the notes with the album were recorded in a empty lounge which it was being decorated) which really get going almost out of nowhere after a few minutes in a way that only Mogwai were previously capable.
However on their most recent album, there are other examples of a change in tempo like on the masterful title of their last album ‘Against the pull of Autumn’ – the band display a glorious change in tone where they subject us to a over 11 minute track where starts as a haunting almost John Cage Piano which is then developed with layers of noise before a beautiful The Durruti Column guitar takes central stage, which makes perfect sense.
Check them out on http://www.epic45.com/ - they have released three full length albums ‘Reckless Engineers’, ‘Slides’ and ‘Against the Pull of Autumn’ as well as two quite nice EP’s ‘England fallen over’ and another EP I forget the name off the top off my head (which is still beautiful).
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