The Evening Episode Reviewed
The Evening Episode
The Physicist Has Known Sin
(Slowdance)
After a series of tests, you might find trip-hop/schleptronica to be slow, a sedative, and an encumbrence on the motor functions.
Not so for The Evening Episode. It might be more appropriate to shove The Physicist Has Known Sin onto the same pile as the rest of the folktronic infidels, but its heart is with scorching guitar sets more than plying electronic flourishes. Less percolating than Garbage and with the smoky sass of Lamb, “We’ll Be Read” resists owning up to its intentions until well into the song’s dissipation, once the insistent drums march in. Later, on the epic “Photocopied Residence,” Teresa Eggers sings childrens melodies in a room by herself while the rest of the band howls at the walls like an off-Broadway production in the middle of a Hooverphonic record.
— Steve Forstneger
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