And So I Watch You From Afar - Run Home

     Three weeks or so ago I wrote a post about Irish four-piece And So I Watch You From Afar in which I mentioned their forthcoming new album Heirs, due out in May. Since then, about two weeks or so ago, the record's first single hit the interwebs. Now, today, we're going to sit down and listen to it. Sound good? Smashing.

     "Run Home" is a high-energy, almost-instrumental track built on a foundation of a couple of noodly harmonized guitar riffs and some gang-vocalized "yo's" and "run home's". Clocking in at less than three minutes long, it blazes by at such a breakneck pace that you'll probably have to listen to it a couple of times to get the full effect. Better still, you'll probably want to.

Thursday: And So I Watch You From Afar - Think: Breathe: Destroy

     Time for a little belated instrumental post-rock from Ireland for your Thursday. How's that for specific?

     Belfast's And So I Watch You From Afar have been pretty prolific over the last few years, with three albums, an EP and a couple of remixes to their credit in the last four years or so, and another LP Heirs due out in May. And despite their being, as I tried to encapsulate above, an instrumental, post-whatevery kind of band (think vaguely Russian Circles or Mogwai-type stuff) they cover a fair amount of musical ground in some of their songs.

     Songs like "Think: Breathe: Destroy" from the band's 2011 LP Gangs, which charts a course through a couple of different moods with some noodly, interwoven guitar parts back up by some big bass. The track even ends, appropriately enough given ASIWYFA's nationality, on a somewhat celtic feeling groove. If this kind of music is your jam, these guys will definitely give you a lot to chew on.