JAKOB - Blind Them With Science

     I'm not a huge fan of post-modernism in my art or my literary philosophy, but I'm willing to have a go at post-just-about-anything-else. And it's a good thing too, because it's the best way to come across bands like the providers of your Song for this evening.

     JAKOB is a post-rock (at times almost post-metal) trio from New Zealand with a sound as big as the vistas you might expect to see in its homeland. Yes, that's a somewhat clunky simile, but that's fine as long as you get the proper sense of bigness.

     Due out in October on The Mylene Sheath, JAKOB's latest Sines has apparently been a long time coming (eight years or so, going by Soundcloud), a journey mirrored in the musical journey of first single "Blind Them With Science". It's not so much the "ebb and flow" of your average post-whatever as it is a "flow and flow", so to speak.

     Sure, the song picks up, then has a low in the middle, and picks up again, but instead of the "crashing waves" effect you sometimes get, it's more of a river (if we have to stick to aquatic metaphors, which we do) moving from point A to B to C in its own way and time. And now I'm rambling, so just go put the damn song on and be moved already.