III by Pullman

For fans of Tortoise, Gastr Del Sol, Sigur Rós, ambient Americana, and the conscious decision to cherish every moment we share with loved ones, III by Pullman looks back on decades of groundbreaking music and creative community with a warm, fuzzy take on instrumental post rock. A constant cascade of minimalist guitar melodies results in this dense layering effect which defines each song’s emotional profile, as each composition builds and subsides by adding and subtracting individual instrumental tracks. These songs approach us with arms wide and wrap us in a soft embrace, following the rounded contours of community in its gradual assembly and quiet release. As the band contends with an earth-shattering medical diagnosis of one of its members, these feelings of basking in the warmth of a found family spring to the front of these performances. In giving and receiving the sort of radiant love we find depicted here, we realize the highest meaning of our lives, even as the song inevitably winds down to its peaceful end.