The Things They Believe‘ – a name borrowed from the film adaptation of
30 Days Of Night, according to the band – is a solely instrumental, sample-loaded, ambient experience, with saxophones from
The 1975’s John Waugh Sideman on two tracks and plenty of layered swirling atmos to wash over you. If anything, it’s an “escape record”; a form of dark and moody ambient escapism from our stranger-than-fiction world. For how do you sum up a year like 2020 in a few lyrics? That’s easy: you don’t. You create sounds emblematic of the day-to-day.
I dig how this album art is in-line with the design aesthetic of ‘I Let It In And It Took Everything.’