Sold on the album now. Rather charming, very listenable. Not as pretentious as Black Midi (somehow). Good stuff.
My wife just asked me if I’m listening to a play.
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I think I agree - I like it, I admire it, I’d like to see them do it live - but I also hope it’s an interesting precursor to something better.
I automatically read this to myself in an overwrought vibrato, would make such a good lyric for the middle of a BCNR song.
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So would this ironically
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Is this whole thread just the band workshopping new lyrics?
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Just watched the show at the South Bank Centre. Very very good. They sound very Youthmovies in places, comes across more live. That was a very enjoyable hour or so. The choir is definitely pointing to an Arcade Fire direction 
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The “new” tracks were strong I thought (Bread Song and Basketball Shoes). Promising for the second album.
I’m really liking their 6 music festival set on iplayer just now.
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Just watched this, really liked how Opus sounded.
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I watched it a few times now, Track X sounds amazing live.
Finally got round to listening to this, really enjoyed it.
But…just couldnt get away from how derivative of the band Joeyfat some of it is. They must have been inspired by them, surely?
Theyve been going since the mid 90s, but the album ‘suit of lights’ is great. Just listen to tracks 3, 5 and 6 and tell me theres no inspiration!
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Ha, we are of the same mind here!
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I don’t think I agree with the comparison but I hadn’t heard of Joeyfat before and quite like this, so thanks for posting!
Exactly! I ended up listening to a load of Joeyfat the other day having heard this lot and been reminded of how good Joeyfat were/are (?).
Some great lost bands of that era who would be bigger now. Elevate is another.
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They’re still going I believe, they usually play a gig at Christmas at least, but obviously not last year. One of the guys runs the forum and I think a couple of the pubs in tunbridge wells.
On an elevate tangent, the singer has gone a couple of solo albums that are really good:
James Elkington, the guitarist also had made some great albums, solo and as the zincs, but he’s a fairly renowned session guitarist in the US - plays with Richard Thomson, Wilco and some of the people from tortoise.
I’ll end this dull trivia with what I believe is true; elevate became flacco Rivera but broke up when the drummers other career took off - he was one of the original inventors of the football manager series and is now an MBE!
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I think the early post-rock lot in particular have lost a lot out of having formed at a time when print media was becoming less relevant, but the internet wasn’t yet the cornucopia it is today. So there’s loads of these really interesting bands who aren’t that well-documented either analoguely or digitally really
This may be total nonsense
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I thought it was the bassist who was the software chap, but , am probably wrong. Thanks for elevate related pointers; I love their Architect album.
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Deffo truth to this.