CD review: Do Make Say Think, Other Truths

After the astounding personality and scenery of DMST’s last two records, you’d think this attention to structure would somehow limit the band’s approach, that by repeating the same riffs with a variety of flourishes, the music would become familiar and boring. Luckily, the album travels in a perpetually satisfying wave of memorable crescendos.

Other Truths does have vocals, although they are sparse and used more for choir-effect than anything else, giving the songs a hallowed atmosphere, like a hymn but more humanistic — what you might listen to while climbing a mountain: uplifting and jubilant, never nihilistic or pessimistic even when being introspective, usually closing with a contemplative guitar note that lingers amid a soothing sunset, receding tide or an ascension toward some ambient soundscape, gorgeous and glorious, cradled in the celestial heights.

Unconvinced? Listen to the opening track here.

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