WHATEVER YOU LOVE, YOU ARE

Lots of post-rock bands seem to settle into what is a sort of accustomed "house style", a formula which becomes their distinctive personal style and trademark and which you either tire of after an album or two or which you can't get enough of. Dirty Three's Whatever You Love, You Are, for instance, more or less continues the approach of preceding albums like Horse Stories or Ocean Songs - Turner and White create the atmospheric foundation on guitar and drums, whilst Warren Ellis plays his little heart out on his violin - but for those of us who find the unique sadness of Dirty Three so captivating, more of the same is just what we are after.