Vessels

With their debut EP, Leeds’ Vessels present a refreshing take on the hazy and exhausted melancholia of post rock.

An unusual, yet quite satisfying hybrid of electronica and gentle, pulsing piano make 'Yuki’ a pleasant reminder of how good Hood were when operating at the top of their game. Like most of Hood’s output, there is something geographically specific about this music’s inherent soulfulness which makes it impossible to separate from Northern suburbia.

'Forever The Optimist’ is far less the linear narrative and as such a far more immediate proposition. Instantly and insistently alive with angular guitar lines and seriously tight arrangements, this is the obvious single and would probably meet the aesthetic requirements of people that wear incomprehensively tight jeans ' you know who you are,

An embodiment in music of that point where the countryside hits the town, or a daydream gets suddenly interrupted by reality, Vessels’ debut, in spite of the band’s tendency to drift towards sheer visceral energy, is captivating.