This is the third album from UK post-rock band Million Moons.
You Be Good, I Love You contains 56 minutes of atmospheric instrumental post-rock. Million Moons invite the listener to feel something on this record, and it’s an invitation you shouldn’t say no to.
Post-rock generally has an atmospheric focus, and You Be Good, I Love You pushes this into the cinematic stratosphere. The album is essentially an hour long journey through sublime soundscapes of melancholic expression and deep emotive moodbuilding.
Through beauty and sorrow, wonder and despair, and much else, Million Moons transport the listener to another world. It’s carefully rendered, making for an album that makes good use of its running time. Million Moons mix in influences from classical, post-metal, shoegaze, and progressive rock and metal, and deploy instruments like keyboards, piano, organs, and saxophone in key places. It all adds up to an ambitious, well-realised release, with much to offer fans of the style.
The music is well-crafted and richly melodic. It feels, much of the time, almost like it has been naturally grown, or like it has been poured from some great ocean, rather than having been consciously pieced together by controlling minds. Of course, it has, and the end result is compelling and immersive.
You Be Good, I Love You is a strong, affecting, impressive record. Million Moons don’t spend their time trying to be the biggest, boldest, most technical, heaviest, etc. band out there. Instead, they put in the work to reach the listener where it counts, conjuring up feelings and experiences out of nothingness. This is music built, structured, and breathing with emotional depth and a wealth of expressive atmosphere. In essence, You Be Good, I Love You knows exactly what it is, what it wants to achieve, and completes its task better than the majority of its peers.
Million Moons are ready to make a mark on the post-rock landscape. Are you ready to embrace them?
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