TLS
A song left for you
Imperial Recordings
While intensely lush and dreamlike, there's a significant flaw in "A song left for you": it meanders beautifully, and it even feels right, but the compositions just don't go anywhere. The listener's patience is rarely rewarded; unlike a Mono track or a slow Radio Dept. song, there's no conclusion to the convoluted instrumentation and emotions with TLS - just moment after moment of stagnant thought, beautiful as it may be. Even on "Future rush", with its crackling electronic elements, there is no progression, just an in medias res entrance into a moment and a fade out before the scene feels completed or accomplished. Dreamy, shoegaze inspired pop still needs to take a page from post-rock bands' notebooks - take all the time you need, just make the journey worthwhile.
- Lars Garvey Laing-Peterson
