Trilateral Machine by Flip Top Head

For fans of Black Country, New Road, The Last Dinner Party, Legss, that intersection point between folk and post rock, and maximalism as a memorial to a sort of tasteful opulence which will never exist again, Trilateral Machine by Flip Top Head brings an energetic indie rock sensibility to the flowery neoclassical world of the windmill scene. High tempos crash head-on into vast chord progressions and lingering vocals, a contrast which invites anxiety as our heart rate pulls in two directions at once. Simultaneously, lush orchestral instrumentation gives a warm background to otherwise frigid, angular guitar riffs, further deepening the album’s extensive contrasts and leaving us somewhere between comfort and panic. As these contrasts weave together through dramatic dynamic swells, those moments of pure cathartic release flash rapidly before our eyes. Through the chaos, we’ve arrived at transitory euphoria, a peak only visible for us long enough to recognize exactly how far we have to fall. Suddenly, the twisted course of entropy makes total sense, and we appreciate the contradictions for that ray of transcendence held inside.