IS TROPICAL
On My Way
Music • DigitalIndie
[80/100]
Axis Mundi Records
12/03/2015, Paul PLEDGER
My my my, how they've grown up for their next assault on our eardrums. Well, not so much an assault as a caress - Is Tropical have discovered the perfect balance of emotive trilling and funereal electronic beats, coupled with an eerie echoey choral backdrop and a mind-mangling climax. The first of five intertwined 10" singles, eventually making up the band's next album, On My Way is glorious. It's flipside Crawl is also niftier, shiftier but nowhere near as elegant or elegiac.
This review also appeared on Flipside Reviews
Paul PLEDGER
12/03/2015
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