Five Of Cups: Gold Vinyl LP The Goa Express Echo The Diamond emerged from

Echo The Diamond emerged from a deliberate stripping-away of artifice to reveal life for all its harsh truths and ineffable beauty

End Times may be the elecro-shock blues of break-up albums

Other tracks like “New Reality” and closer “The Age of Innocence” are also demonstrably guitar-forward in ways that wouldn’t seem obvious for Tanlines (despite Emm’s pedigree in austere avant-garde math-rock outfits Storm & Stress and Don Caballero)

but what’s left feels more present and potent

the introspective

Five Of Cups: Gold Vinyl LP The Goa Express Echo The Diamond emerged fromFive of Cups opens with the title track, establishing the albums auditory and thematic modus operandi from the get go. Holy Waves lysergic textural palette is immediately apparent in the songs woozy synth lead and anti gravity guitar jangle, but the atypical chord progressions and vocal melody steers the music away from anodyne escapism into a pensive grappling between self determination and defeatism. Holy Wave continue to ride the wistful and