Unlike Depth & Currents last-sane-man-on-Earth narrators, however, the characters residing in Kill the Reflections second full-length, Together ... Apart ... , are just as fractured and disjointed as their environments.
With No Love at All, we have such a song that opens with a bit of dour note-picking straight out of the Nirvana textbook. Singer Morgan Routt then steps up and does all right to capture the really, really sucky feeling that comes when youre still very much in love with somebody youve wronged and how you find yourself trying to measure back up to the way things once were.
The discs definitely comfortable in the realm of lyrically driven post-punk that favors mid-tempos over speed, and straightforwardness above all else. Across 12 songs, the formula gets a little repetitive and lacks a big climax, but theres an odd, trip-hoppy leftover tacked on to the end, a song called Damage Inside My Head. The off-kilter beat wouldve mixed things up nicely somewhere in the middle of the record.
You can buy Together ... Apart ... at the bands website, killthereflection.com. Matt Carney