SPLIT (W/TALONS)

Utterly unfamiliar with Talons, by all accounts a more progressive, post-hardcore-slanted Post-Rock band (Spotify "Fans also like" Three Trapped Tigers and Brontide most notably). (At least) Here, they have classical strings in addition to the traditional Rock formulation (also, definitionally speaking, as any Post-Rock band tends to have). Their track here, "Bethlehem", was a pretty solid introduction to them, I must say. Just a cool sound in general. Eventually released on And So I Watch You From Afar's better beloved, better known EP, Letters (2009), their contribution to the split is "D is for Django The Bastard". This is a booming, bombastic number, much like the material on that would-be EP and stylistically similar to what they would do shortly thereafter on Gangs specifically. Something I totally forgot was this jazzy bridge section. Fantastic. I look forward to delving into that EP proper (and properly). It's been a long time.