Rolo Tomassi - Opalescent

Rolo Tomassi may have been referred to as the north of Englands best kept secret, although theyre not going to be a secret for much longer. With five tracks and a short piano piece clocking in at just under 25 minutes, the band are set to smash any preconceptions you may have had about a) extreme and spazzy music and b) the band themselves and their age. Far more evolved than the constraints of jazzy noise or synth-screamo, Rolo Tomassi leap confidently from genre to genre. Moments of oddly-timed chaos flow comfortably into sanguine prog-rock workouts, otherworldly, alien noises sit happily alongside bass-led doom riffs. Its eclectic stuff - without ever sounding disjointed.

[ethanw.eastep]

No measured mark of wit, wisdom or rhetoric could solve this
Too fractured to endear, bonds broken beyond view
With all roads leading here, fettered by an endless blue

But I held the arrows, I pulled the strings
And bottled messages never to be seen
But I held the arrows, I pulled the strings

In fits and starts it can blossom and bloom
But I held the arrows, I pulled the strings
In fits and starts it can blossom and bloom
The shot at the moon still falls short of the stars

[danielfoy]

so stoked for this band. been following them for awhile and they never disappoint

[bonaleix]

this is the first time I listen to them, really impressed

[Maya-hktz]

Oh, Hello Ghost
I Love Turbulence
Fofteen
Abraxas
An Apology To The Universe
Nine
Macabre Charade
Trojan Measures
Everything Went Grey
Scabs
Fantasia
album: "Cosmology" (2010)

[lasrealistas]

the instrumental is very very good, but the vocal is too linear, boring