On Ambulance, The Amazing continue their journey to a place where music is free of restrictions, offering up another collection of densely concentrated melodies and fractured rhythms. Songs on Ambulance unfold slowly, without a traditional verse/chorus structure, spinning gauzy webs of shimmering mystery with their own inimitable dynamic of sinuous, swirling guitars; rich, ambient bass lines; crisp percussion and restrained, church-like, keyboard textures. They brim over with tension and more implied release than actual relief. While Picture You was bright, exploding outward to explore the limits of experience, this next installment, Ambulance, is more intimate, imploding inward to reconnoiter the uncharted distances that exist between us, even in life's most intimate moments.
F**Y
RATHER DISAPPOINTING...
I read that this album was captured live in a studio room, with minimal rehearsing and relying heavily on improvisation. The sound is o.k. but the compositions are rather flat and boring to me, maybe the result of the minimal way the album was recorded. Their previous album "Picture you" made a much greater impression on me.
D**N
It washes over you
Great Laurel Canyonesque happy sound.I am 70 and I wholeheartedly embrace this album, as I do all there others.Frans Kooy your an idiot it,s a wonder you know how to breathe!
K**E
Recommended
Very impressive album. Reminiscent of Red House Painters, Engineers.
G**N
Five Stars
Wonderful as ever.
