Years

Years – First Album (2009)

Fresh from Toronto’s Arts & Crafts Label, Year’s debut plows the post rock furrow with gleeful abandon. Not afraid of melody and awash with acoustic and orchestral interludes, Do Make Say Think/Broken Social Scene member Ohad Benchetrit’s first solo release is a rich brew of organic and electronic soundscapes, often so tightly layered as to be almost impossible to discern.  Reference points include, inevitably, God Speed You, Black Emperor, but this is a much richer concoction, frothier in parts, but lacking none of the bite of Montreal’s finest.