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Precious Fathers, a Vancouver post-rock four-piece made up of two actual fathers and two non-fathers, prove that songs without lyrics and vocals can convey as much story and mood as those with them. The seven insanely evocative and dynamic songs on their second album have a laid-back, West Coast serenity that’s rare in contemporary indie rock.
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Tim Loewen and Jaret Penner propel the tunes with ever-shifting guitar lines that blend jazz, rock, folk and experimental sounds. Spacious melodies surge and subside above Josh Lindstrom’s inventive rhythms and Paul Goertzen’s energetic bass lines. The instrumentation rarely ventures beyond this standard rock-band formation, and it doesn’t need to. Lack of complication does not, in this case, mean lack of complexity. Repeat listens unveil more and more.
Top track: Alluvial Fan = Bone
