Velvet Grooves

'Flyover' is the second album from masterful post-rockers 'The Workhouse', which manages to better their excellent debut album also on Bearos, called 'End Of The Pier'. It's a fine album of proper emotional post-rock. It starts off with 'Chancers' which is like the start to a fucked up David Lynch film riddled with violence and despair. It's a slow moving track, moving into 'Shake Hands', which is more of a shoe-gazer led instrumental building on guitar effects, echoes and other ambient sounds. This is also the first album to feature vocals from the band as present in 'Boxing Day' which is a bit of a take on Interpol fronted by Ian Curtis.

The album contains such powerful guitars in parts, such as in 'Flyover' - starting off reasonably mellow to Chris Taylor’s vocals, slowly blending into a mad rush which brings Mogwai to mind at their most aggressive and loud. All this, whilst managing to build on effects and other found sounds to create a new blend of post-rock, further setting themselves as ahead of the crowd. A good progression for The Workhouse, with an album for those of us that really want to be challenged. Awesome!