Recording: Flowers of Hell

Artist: Flowers of Hell

Song: O [excerpt]

Recorded at St. Stephen-In-The-Fields Church, November 13, 2010.

Flowers of Hell - O [excerpt]

Full review to follow My review of this show can now be found here. These were my original quick notes: An excellent night at church with the Optical Sounds crew, a beautiful-sounding gig all around, with phenomenal sound for the dozen-ish FoH orchestra. I'd read some reviews of the new album that weren't fully enthusiastic, positing it as failed post-rock — because, I guess, it dares to do something other than build and build and explode with an orgasmic flourish. There's something else entirely going on here — I asked FoH mainman Greg Jarvis after if he were familiar with In a Silent Way, as there were moments where that came to my mind during the performance. He said no, but he seems to have independently come across a method of composing that manages to be neither ambient nor throughline-driven.