Inside the Ships

Inside the Ships

Tarwater’s 11th album features more analog sounds to balance out its electronic interests, and the resulting album veers from quiet meditative pieces to tense, mechanical works. The tracks highlight the feelings of alienation from living in a modern, technological world. “In a Day” throws swooping keyboard tones into a rhythm that’s pure computer overload. “Photographed” features a marching groove where the track's overall warmth smooths over the totalitarian threat of the unforgiving keyboard riffs. “Inside the Ships,” featuring backward instrumentation, is a delightfully mellow piece with cool yet empathetic vocals. “Get On” works at the opposite end of the spectrum, with a cold detached vocal and a martial beat that demands immediate attention. A cover of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s “Do the Oz” sounds positively contemporary and not at all as unusual as it did so many decades ago. “Furkan” is calm with flutes. It offers a bucolic respite before the robotic gleam of Tarwater's cover of D.A.F.’s “Sato Sato” puts it back on the chain gang.

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