TRISTEZA
A Colores
Better Looking Records
· Chicago-influenced San Diego quintet.
If recent Mogwai efforts have left you a little cold or thirsting for more space rock, Tristeza offers up a platter du jour containing 12 instrumental tracks that venture off into the realm of post-rock psychedelia. Long, extended guitar and keyboard passages swirl deep into the four and five-minute marks, leaving standard song structures far behind. Multi-ethnic influences weave elegant traces throughout A Colores, such as on the opening Arabic tinge to "Bromas" or the more dominant Latin-stained themes on "Aereoaviones." Meanwhile, modern sounds are on order with "La Tierra Sutil," oddly echoing Radiohead’s OK Computer, if the latter had been recorded by Tortoise.
One night I expect to wake in a cold sweat, as the post-rock bubble bursts and we all realize that we’ve been listening to our generation’s prog-rock versions of Yes, but with Tristeza it won’t be tonight.
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