Tomorrow We Sail - The Shadows (2018) EN

For a while now, I hadn't heard of a new, good collective playing folk-inspired, atmospheric and alternative music just like Decemberists do. Luckily, the void is filled with the new album by the Englishmen of Leeds, Tomorrow We Sail and their inspirational music going as far as to post-rock borders.

The music I think about is characterized by vide use of folk-related instruments, complex lyrics reminding me of oral stories filled with mysticism and, yes, with plot, and also by dialogical, male-female vocals. All of those features can be fund on "The Shadows". I was very glad to find Fuzzy Lights, one of the most not-enough-well-known-and-deserving-to bands, perhaps ever, on the list of the artists' inspirations.

The band feels well both in long, story-like tracks as for example "The Shadows" with especially beautiful vocals or "The Ghost of John Maynard Keynes" ("the scapegoat changes but the story stays the same") and in moody ballads ("Winifred"). It's also hard to say what kind of instruments sound better - the post-rocking guitars or the atmospheric strings. The answer is probably that the band finds the balance between the genres including instrumental post-rock and neoclassical music ("To Sleep"!).

"The Shadows" costs 7 GBP.

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