Let Airplanes Circle Overhead
Let Airplanes Circle Overhead
( Motive Sounds Recordings ) 2005

Let Airplanes Circle Overhead: May as well, you're not going to hear the massive machines - LACO play their respective instruments as if attempting recapture what Hans von Ohain did with jet engines on record. Appropriately titled band & album (formerly referred to as As An Enemy) and the song titles ("Fury against the formless", "Pengatross") hold true as well. "Fury against the formless" (as with many of these songs) takes very little time (around the 1:00 mark) warming up the turbines and forcing waves of intensity through your listening post.

And in between the wailing streams of guitars and drums, LACO honor you with breathing room on atmospheric compositions such as the 2-minute "That was no accident" - just like being 5 years old again and seeing snow fall for the first time. Bipolar disorder may have never sounded so angelic. Producing songs that are in no hurry to reach the end (3 tracks are 6 minutes+), all while peaking, swelling and swooning in countless directions - Let Airplanes Circle Overhead have fine-tuned a stellar debut. For lovers of Gregor Samsa, Explosions in the Sky and Stuart Braithwaite.

Of note is their label, Motive Sounds Recordings. Based in the UK with LACO being their third proper release, each release is initially presented in a limited run (this in a batch of 500). Each release also presents a specific designer to supply logo / typography for the individual artist. With releases from ctrlaltdelete already out of print, and a roster that includes LACO and the minimally electronic skoud, I can hear the call being made for repressings already.

+ kaleb , only child :: (10.25.05)