Stubborn Persistent Illusions
Do Make Say Think has been widely celebrated as one of the preeminent instrumental rock bands of the 90s-00s. Stubborn Persistent Illusions is the group’s first album in eight years – and a brilliant addition to one of the most consistently inventive and critically praised discographies in the ‘post-rock’ canon. The band has been acclaimed as “the supernova in Constellation’s stellar network…arguably the finest back catalogue of any currently operating instrumental rock band” (Drowned In Sound), creating “some of the most honest, unpretentious, group-oriented rock of their time” (Popmatters). Among the band’s strengths is an ineffable naturalism that avoids anything too woolly, proggy, purist or clichéd, while remaining a fundamentally guitar-driven group whose ornate four- and six-string interplay uniquely balances rockism, pastoralism, and electronic-influenced post-production. Stubborn Persistent Illusions is at once familiar and as fresh as anything DMST has committed to tape; produced and mixed as always by the band itself – a continuing affirmation of the group’s DIY ethos and their singular self-production acumen and aesthetic. Do Make Say Think enter their third decade with a new album that reaffirms their promise of genuinely expressive, narrative and restorative instrumental rock music – an one that will surely rank among their best.
The Toronto post-rock band returns with their first album in eight years. It’s the well-oiled sound of a band pushing the boundaries of a genre littered with tropes, without succumbing to any of them.
The tight Toronto collective return as restless and reaching as they've ever been.
Stubborn Persistent Illusions, their first since 2009's Other Truths, is a startling return to form from Toronto's Do Make Say Think.
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Do Make Say Think - Stubborn Persistent Illusions review: horripilation, indeed