Disco de Do Make Say Think: “Do Make Say Think”

Do Make Say Think have a sound somewhere between Tortoise and Godspeed You Black Emperor! If that sounds appealing to you, pick this up. Heck, even if it doesn't. Do Make Say Think write brilliant songs and they play them even better. You could almost call this album jazzy if you wanted to. A good album for sitting very still and paying very close attention to. Kind of dark. Despite the above, Do Make Say Think are absolutely positively NOT suffering from a case of the "Floyds" as other lesser "experimental" bands are sometimes prone to do.

so I couldn't help but buy this album when I saw such favorable comparisons to bands like tortoise for this band, and upon first listen, I was appropriately blown away, but then I noticed the achilles heel of this album--lack of movement---this album sees DMST finding great riffs and sounds, but then not developing enough movement of sound and structure for their long format songs, ultimately reducing it to great background music, because its just not interesting enough to hold my attention for the 10 minutes or whatever these songs last---the comparison to tortoise I heard made me think of the infamous song "DJed" by tortoise that continues on for 20 minutes, but you will notice that DJed has several movements (almost like a rock symphony or something) such that Djed at minute 3 is a different song (but with the same themes) as DJed at minute 12---DMST doesn't have this movement within themes that I find essential for songs over 8 minutes long---A DMST song at minute 5 is the same as it is at minute 8---granted, there are some extended, creative intros that I love, but I wish they explored more within every songs structure

Punted this one and it's pretty good.

The reviews below give you a fair idea, so I'd just like to add that those who are fascinated by the closing track might like to go back 25 years before this, to 'He Loved Him Madly' from Miles Davis' 1974 album "Get Up With It".

It's great to see so many musicians and music-lovers with such big ears these days.

A friend and had heard of these guys through a friend, and decided to see what it was all about. We both pretended to really like it, but we both knew it was average. When you have stuff like Explosions in the Sky and Mogwai, it is hard to fit something like this into your CD player. If you are a big Post-Rock fan, why not explore a little bit, but this one for me goes by the radar with a very small blip...blip...blip....