Made to Live Here by All Blue

For fans of The Olivia Tremor Control, The Microphones, Silver Jews, psych rock, and the sort of simple, elegant epiphany which changes your life forever, Made to Live Here by All Blue puts a clear, unified voice through the filter of heavy psychedelia, combining the accessibility of contemporary indie rock and the genuine strangeness of something far beyond. Early moments on the record reflect a shattering paradigm which brings great distress to our narrator, a crisis represented through intense instrumental improvisation over wobbly psychedelic grooves alongside a terrified vocal tone. Later on, however, our narrator learns to accept the difficulties of this forbidden knowledge, allowing the instrumental background to smooth over into the gentle dynamic swells of post rock as the vocals reflect an ecstatic unity with the flows of nature. The world as it existed before the intrusion of this earth-shattering forbidden knowledge will never return, but the new, more complicated, less comfortable world taking its place affords us opportunities for a joy much more genuine than anything we’ve ever experienced before.