Union of Knives - Taste For Harmony (Relentless / EMI)
3/5
By: Thomas Hannan
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With a title like that, it'd be wrong if the chorus the song houses wasn't harmonised over in the most gorgeous of fashions, and Union of Knives don't screw around with us, rescuing a song which in its verses seems to lack a sense of any real coherent direction with a chorus worthy of the now sadly defunct Granddaddy, and a swoon or two also, if we're honest.
The rest of it is peculiar, and though not as memorable as that soft, delicate chorus, much more interesting in virtue of just that. Many, many listens in and I'm still not entirely sure what happens in it, so here follows a list to aid my memory, and inform your first listen - sleepy meandering guitars chiming about, bits where it all falls away and leaves you only with someone's voice whispering melancholically and occasionally the gentle splash of an electronically generated set of cymbals rearing its head when the machine feels like it. Then, that chorus.
There. That helped.
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