The High Price of Living Too Long With a Single Dream

Pinebender's latest album is a 48-minute celebration of impossible designs, love lost, and fond farewells to old vices and good friends. It finds the band landing beautiful combinations. The record's "balls"-heavy guitar cannonades are always balanced with astute dynamics. A sense of quietude offsets the bombast, leaving the song brewing with some threat of explosion, a direct (though most likely unaware) response to the oft-fey, post-post rock lineage. Highly recommended.