Rest Symbol - s/t

Freshly birthed Kranky off-shoot FO reaches out into London's unknown waters for this second offering of spooked n sensual ambi-pop from mysterious trio Rest Symbol. Members Molinaro, Moreiya and Wendy Lavone are all said to have served time in various oufits and manifestations connected to labels like Apron, Touching Bass and 5GATETEMPLE, none of which I can speak to but I really must get around to properly investigating. When they come together here, though, the sound is very much one of Right Now, a ghostly reconfiguration of blue-smoke trip hop, dissociative dream-logic dub ambience, and palimpsestic post-Burial electronic emotionalism. We see many references to such things these days, but Rest Symbol are adept in framing it just right, keeping you guessing while holding the door ajar to allow you a peak in. Much to enjoy throughout, though I'd implore you to stick right in there until the end for the the obvious winner 'Twelfth Hour', a very Kranky-like orchestral drone-pop torch song pitched somewhere between the highwatermark of Belong's Common Era, Tim Hecker and Bristol Sound romance. I'd not take your eye of these. Much more surely to come.   
 
FFO: Jabu, HTRK, Space Afrika, Ulla, Tim Hecker