Like the trauma after a car crash and the hard roll onto the pavement, the damage is less severe if you just let it happen.
This is the kind of mood instrumental post-rock is for. The tempo changes, the layers, the crescendos that erupt in cymbals and resonate in high-pitched melodies...we glimpse into something greater when there's nothing but sound to tell the story, and god this would sound so good on real speakers right now.
