Life's Is Short The Answer's Long (Vinyl LP) discogimp

Life's Is Short The Answer's Long (Vinyl LP) discogimpThe Beat Escape have crafted a debut album their younger selves would be proud of: released through Bella Union on 27th April, the sublimely immersive Life Is Short The Answer's Long plays like a waking dream of near psychedelic electronic pop, moving to its own beat in the push pull of forward motion and submerged reflection. That sense of propulsion ushers opener Sign Of Age into rising view, its sparse drums, hypnotic sequence and melancholic

it's this that characterises the process of recording the new album and it's this that has been distilled into a work that is not only their best and most definitive to date but by asking these questions it's also that which best reflects the great beauty in life

it was recorded not in New York or the Motor City

Tenor saxophonist Benny Golson (whose composition Along Came Betty is heard here

From the heartfelt

The album features new full band arrangements of original '80s Thomas classics 'Gyae Su'

yielding majestic sonic results

a really bad break-up and a lot of other crazy stuff

The album fuses jazz

consistently performing to larger and larger audiences and selling out the likes of London's Royal Albert Hall

where to an intimate piano melody he regretfully sings: "I turn evil in your hands

trash and junk - in perfect

now in its fifth volume