Play 90 second soundbite of 'Build A House And Burn It Down' @ 'CD quality'
'Until The Ocean' carefully and tenderly nudges traditional influences and their instruments towards twenty-first century multi-sub-genre rock with all of its contemporary musical gadgetry, caresses the molten form and allows the process of musical alchemy to reshape and remould the fluidly organic embryo to be re-born as a new-world gem of massive importance and value.
The Horse Flies take 'fiddle-folk' on an adventurous journey through contemporary musical idioms, they inject new life into an old form, they re-visit 'traditional' styles, they introduce accordion to moog, violin to ebow and so on! Nothing's sacred to The Horse Flies - well, just the music perhaps; everything else is open to forward thinking musical adaptation in an attempt to raise the ante with 'folk' biased music.
The deep, inner strength of The Horse Flies music is partly derived from the extraordinary weight and prominence afforded the percussive back-line; The Horse Flies music is strikingly (sorry about the pun there!), percussively driven to a great extent with 'other' instruments dropping into line appropriately and proportionately. The Horse Flies' music is unique without being self-indulgent, intelligent without being condescending, richly textured without ever losing the thread; a beautifully conceived sound and feel, a ginormously enthralling rollercoaster ride of folk-derived modernistic grooves the like of which you don't normally hear from folk outfits no matter how experimental or innovative they are. The Horse Flies make it work, they generate a bi-polar mix, a cross-pollination, if you will, of folk traditions and electrifyingly contemporary 'rock' that pushes at the envelope of each and every musical genre it visits. The end result is an astonishingly vibrant sound that is almost 'post-traditional'. This six-piece outfit quite clearly believe in their chosen musical way because there's a feeling of complete unity that shines brightly with each and every song herein. All for one and....blah, blah!!
Many acts/artists have taken a similar musical road to The Hose Flies but I can honestly say that I've never yet heard anything quite so rewarding and entertaining as this. The Horse Flies exude professionalism, they personify unity and they define innovation - 'Until The Ocean' by The Horse Flies is like nothing else I know - breathtakingly absorbing, stunningly innovative, undeniably original and just fan-bloody-tastic!!
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