& Yet & Yet

The third full-length album from Do Make Say Think, & Yet & Yet finds this Toronto-based orchestral sextet delving deeper and deeper into the fabric of space-rock, jazz fusion and drone dynamics. Anyone familiar with the intricacies of Tortoise's Millions Living Will Never Die will surely find much to love here. "Classic Noodlanding" shares something of that fine record's ornate-yet-melancholy tone, thrumming bass melding with hypnotic passages of studiously-plucked guitar. Meanwhile, the portentously-titled "The End Of Music" ropes warm analogue synths and celestial drones into its triumphant design and the stark "Chinatown" adds a minimal techno dimension to its evocative, effects-laded feedback waver.

Sure, there's nothing quite as dramatic here as the incendiary crescendos peddled by Do Make Say Think's Constellation label-mates, Godspeed You Black Emperor! Rather, it seems & Yet & Yet is the work of a group devoted to mapping out the quieter reaches of the experimental spectrum. Do Make Say Think will remain peripheral members of the avant-garde hierarchy for this reason alone, but any post-rock fans desperate for a new fix should find & Yet & Yet a pleasingly tranquil leap forward. --Louis Pattison

Label: Unknown
Studio: Constellation
Released: 2002-03-26
Format: Audio CD

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