Meisha: The First Lessons
"Meisha's music shifts and sways. It moves between the extremes of thick tone drones to intricate shimmering guitar lines and explores the area between the two in great depth. This is their third album, and it follows logically behind the last two. The dueling arpeggiated guitars that so easily invite comparisons to Steve Reich seem to have become a method of writing they have become more comfortable with, as they have less immediacy and a good deal of patience. The result is expansive songs, which can slowly move from a pop structured mish mash of picked guitar to a heavily layered collage of tones. The intricate side is developed further in a similar way. The bass carries a good portion of the harmonic and melodic weight, allowing the guitars more room to step forward and back in their repetition, rhythm, and melodies. The drones also have a well defined sense of space, which pursue ideas and explore loops at length without losing sight of the overall aesthetic in the process. Meisha certainly haven't reinvented themselves (or even really changed how they approach things much), but they have developed their sense of self to a very pleasing end...11" (out of 12) |
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