The Gothenburg Address - A Lesser Coming Home

These days, the 'post-rock' label seems to be bandied around in much the same way as 'prog' used to, acting as a lazy shorthand for long instrumentals with overindulgent production, and accompanied by a mish-mash of orchestral and electronic stew. There is no getting away from the fact that The Gothenburg Address do emotive, instrumental music, but their particular brand of post-rock is lean and taut, with none of the orchestral excesses of the overly morose Godseed!, or the delay-fetish of the clinically sterille Explosions in the Sky. Instead, the Address find solace in understated shoegaze guitar, knowing that flirting coyly is better than indulging in a full blown (muscial) orgy.