Do Make Say Think - Goodbye Enemy Airship The Landlord Is Dead (Black Vinyl)

Do Make Say Think - Goodbye Enemy Airship The Landlord Is Dead (Black Vinyl)The second album by DMST captured the evolving and evocative sound of the band in all its newfound subtlety and sophistication. Recorded in an old wooden barn outside their hometown of Toronto, the album is swaddled in late night, late summer ambiance, maintaining an atmosphere of spontaneity and accident (along with the background sounds of chirping crickets) alongside the increased attention to composition in many of the pieces. While the record is

economical sound

cheap champagne soaked back-alley parties

Now it’s time for their follow-up

Brute provides a chilling sonic backdrop to a world of normalised brutality

The trio has taken everything they’ve learned from the various projects they tackled over the years

the album presents a coherent style and ethos - those scything guitars

throttling record No Joy has made

and timbres are written about/for each other

is a kaleidoscopic release built from textured guitar loops

the band then “moved upstairs” to Beggars Banquet

finds the band at a crossroads of loss and possibility

reframed her life’s experiences through the storied personas of iconic Black and brown artists