OhbijouBeacons
2009
Beacons is the long-awaited follow-up to Canadian collective Ohbijou’s 2006 debut, Swift Feet For Troubling Times. Clearly they were in no rush to release a second album, and it appears they have used the intervening three years to write and craft superior, multi-layered songs for their latest opus. The lengthy gestation process shows in the quality of their music in ways both good and bad; at times it can appear a little too laboured, at others suddenly fresh and breathtaking. Nonetheless, Beacons is one of those rare albums that needs to be enjoyed in its entirety (no iPod shuffle), and preferably on earphones as it’s rather delicate sensibility slowly effervesces throughout the album into sublime geishas of sound that nestle back down into tranquility.
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