An inspiring, essential and powerful debut, Until The Ribbon Breaks are a band who seek deeper, transformative passion, and revive all who listen with the ability to internalise their music with depth and redemption.
Psychoanalyst D.W Winnicott believed that artists possess souls driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide and this notion soon strikes on the first listen of opening track 'The Other Ones'. Lilting in tenderness and sincerity, it is softly revealed "One day I'll tell my secrets to you, I just cannot tell them yet". I struggle to think of a more beautiful promise than this.
We move through to the recollection of 'Orca', with cadence and magnetism, the looping beats and silky tones, are both evocative and immediate. There is a balminess, a caressing motion jabbing at our senses. 'Orca', much like the colossal figurative creature in title is bold, encompassing and tidal , visually translating in to a dominant and impressive piece of music. One which fuses retrospect with grief and fatality. It is apparent that frontman Pete Lawrie-Winfield is on a perpetual search, a projection pigmented with intelligence, wisdom and morality – 'A Lesson Unlearnt' is real testament that there is a definitive light which burns hard within this musician.
The LP in technicality is fresh and operative. As a collective the record shifts and seeps within the soul, sparking and injecting its core with an essence of humanity, the intensity of our desires and fears are brought to the table in slick and hypnotic physicality.
Each track possesses its own surge of mind movement propelled by the depth of eclectic sonics, psyche and contemporary wording. The conditions explored are as much brazen as they are refreshing and the release could not be more timely. Both musically and politically. The band have created their own revolution here, and they want to share it with you. Listen, learn, explore the every corner and it will inflame all that connects us the most, to ourselves and to each other. It's about time that happened.
8/10
Words: Lauren Bridgeman
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