An immersive album spanning from harmonious ’60s-inspired folk to moody rock entrancement, Still To Breathe released today via The Way After, a Coventry and London-based band. Across six tracks, the release consumes with jangly guitars, layered vocal harmonies, and shadowy atmospherics, weaving a sound that feels at once timeless and forward-looking — with inspirations spanning from The Beatles and Big Star to Elliott Smith and R.E.M.
Opening the album, “It’s The Right Time, But The Right Time Only” captivates with a hypnotic folk pull — weaving harmonious vocal layers and fluttering acoustics amidst lush piano touches. The band’s adoration for ’60s harmonies is on full display here with the enveloping vocal work, while the twangy guitar complements past the mid-point adds a rock-friendly appeal to the psych-friendly folk nostalgia. The ensuing “Ghosts in the Hallway” is excellent as well — exuding an aptly haunting appeal, as ethereal vocals pair with soft acoustics into a title-touting chilliness.
Another standout track, “You Can Talk A Mountain” unveils a jangly rock mystique — conjuring a lovely sound reminding of acts like The Church and Echo & the Bunnymen. “Where do I wanna go? Where do I wanna be?” the vocals ask as the stirring guitar textures and steady rhythms craft a hazily enticing aura, debonair and nocturnal in its atmospheric rock and jangle-pop melding. “Summer Rain, Ocean Night” then closes the release out with an introspective vocal warmness, concluding the excellent Still To Breathe with another piece of stellar songwriting.
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“You Can Talk A Mountain” and other tracks featured this month can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Emerging Singles’ Spotify playlist.
We discovered this release via MusoSoup.
