Transient Thoughts 019 - Ranges - Prelude
Prelude by R A N G E S If you told me a few weeks ago that I would be excited about a post rock release in 2021 I would have said you were crazy. My appreciation for the genre is still there but my interest waned around 2005. I will sometime still revisit the albums that got me into the genre, however I have not sought out anything further. I was linked to Prelude a few days ago by a friend. He insisted that I would like them even though I was lukewarm on the genre at the time and in many respects still am. I gave the album a listen out of curiosity and not much more. After my first listen I walked away not knowing if I liked it or not… so I had to listen again. Over the course of many years this is the best reaction I can possibly have to an album. It means the album is challenging, yet accessible enough for me to want to dig deeper. Oftentimes this is the reaction I’ve had to albums that work their way into my top tens for the year. Ranges undoubtedly play post-roc