Killian Fox 

Forgetting the Present review – haunting instrumental beauty from Remember Remember

The band formed by Graeme Ronald are now a sextet and their sound has filled out to satisfying effect, writes Killian Fox
  
  


This instrumental rock outfit from Glasgow started out as one man, Graeme Ronald, playing a lot of instruments. Now, after some fluctuations, it is a solid sextet. Their sound, too, has filled out – nothing on this third album could be described as flimsy. The shimmer of glockenspiels on opener Blabbermouth is ballasted by waves of heavy percussion, while an air of melancholy weighs upon references to sunnier climes – north Africa on Why You Got a Blue Face? – and ostensible dancefloor numbers (La Mayo) alike. At moments such as the latter, the effect can be hauntingly beautiful, but overall a lighter touch would not be a bad thing.

 

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