From The Sky - A Warm Place With No Memory
[Lost Children]

Following on from their Like Crystal in a World of Glass Ep, Londoners From The Sky are back on the netlabel scene with the four-track “A Warm Place with No Memory”. Given their name, this isn’t going to be anything other than instrumental rock. Which is great if post-rock is your bag as this record is rife with intricately layered instrumentation, torrents of distortion, discombobulating time signatures, moments of introspection and euphoric pay-offs.

That being said though, there must be around three million other acts peddling the exact same stuff. Right now, there is a From the Sky performing, third on the bill at some toilet venue, in every major city worldwide. Although it is all nicely executed and expertly performed there is very little to separate this lot from the rest. There’s a fine line between paying homage to and plagiarizing your influences and From the Sky teeter uncomfortably close to the edge. They say "...cohesive yet varied...ranging from pindrop silence to crashing distortion...", I say predictable, unremarkable and ordinary.

But let’s not be harsh here, they tick all he right boxes in the “Big Book of Post-Rock” and people who are that way inclined will genuinely love this. Furthermore, they’re giving it away for free, which is never a bad thing. But then again, Radiohead did the exact same thing with In Rainbows.

(Download A Warm Place With No Memory for free here)

Track Listing:

1. Delusions of Grandeur
2. She Who Stares
3. To The Friend I Once Knew
4. Lost In The Woods