Easy Pieces:Lateduster

Title: Easy Pieces

Label: Merck

Genre: instrumental post-rock

Rating: 6.9 of 7

When a group of innovative producers gang up to record an instrumental post-rock band, you have to take notice. Featuring members of Fog (Ninja Tune), Hymie’s Basement (Lex). Neotropic (Mush), Dosh (Anticon) and Sans Le Systeme, lateduster has composed a gorgeous LP that pulls influences from their underground hip-hop background and channels them through live instrumentation. Though the quintet has been around since 1999, it has gone sorely unnoticed; and with the sprouting individual careers of the key members, the band has finally received the attention they deserve. Easy Pieces is 8 tracks of a unique textural sound that is given the chance to develop and mature in no less than 4 and half minutes per song. Translation… you cannot find a bad cut on the album. Along the same lines as the Album Leaf or a more spacey From Monument to Masses, lateduster will hold the attention of anyone into experimental, prog, post, and instrumental rock along with fans of underground hip-hop, electronica or beat oriented music. It is definitely worth a listen.

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