Album Review: The Deadfly Ensemble~ ​An Instructional Guide for Aspiring Arsonists

Album Review: The Deadfly Ensemble~ An Instructional Guide for Aspiring Arsonists

The Deadfly Ensemble

An Instructional Guide for Aspiring Arsonists CD

An Instructional Guide for Aspiring Arsonists is the third full-length album from The Deadfly Ensemble, and the first of their records to find them recording as a fully fleshed-out band. While An Instructional Guide for Aspiring Arsonists preserves the previous albums’ baroque guitar work and Lucas Lanthier’s quavering, haunted vocals, the fullness of the musicianship on this record comes across like a chamber-pop orchestra from the netherworld. The wider sonic palette also find the Deadfly Ensemble expanding their range; post-punk theatrics and throbbing goth-rock dirges now sit prettily amidst the arty folk and anachronisms found on An Entire Wardrobe of Uncertainty and A Seed Catalog for Extinct Annuals. Like a rough journey by steamship over a rocky sea, An Instructional Guide for Aspiring Arsonists is a study in riding a shifting oceanscape of haunted expectations.

The Deadfly Ensemble:

http://thedeadflyensemble.com/

Projekt:

http://www.projekt.com/projekt/product.asp?sku=PRO00281

Review by Jack Shear
http://musicistheart.tumblr.com/