If one were to choose an essential out of the affluence of limited cassette and CD-R releases under Vincent Caylet's belt, pigeonholing his discography would be an understatement. With work dispersed among some backyard favorites, including Housecraft, Stunned, and Kimberly Dawn, Caylet's reputability leading up to his first proper full-length is certainly merited.
On the project's debut, They Were Floating Over The Mountain, They Were Kings, Archers By The Sea's soundscapes grow and cascade as opposed to the generally static progression that his contemporaries undergo. Voices cast out among landscapes formed by overlapping guitar phrases, tapestries of loops submerge and emerge from murk, and crescendos decompose to an airy flutter before dissipating. For each tense culmination there is an embracing closure.
They Were Floating Over The Mountain, They Were Kings is a uniquely pastoral album that displays Caylet's structural fortitude accumulated from his past releases. Each of the five pieces at hand pulsate, at times reaching gorgeous flourishes and at others breezing through meditative lulls. Perpetually enveloping for its 45 minutes, the album stands as one of, if not Archers By The Sea's most solid work to date.
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