(2017) Dialects - Because Your Path Is Unlike Any Other

Review: 
One of the UK’s great, auspicious instrumental prospects, Dialects have rapidly garnered acclaim with their own take on euphoric, triumphal instrumental post-rock. The band have amassed favourable comparisons to And So I Watch You from Afar, sleepmakeswaves and Alpha Male Tea Party ever since their formation in 2013. After the release of their first EP, 2015’s LTKLTL (Let the Kids Light These Lanterns), Dialects toured relentlessly, earning coveted support slots on a gluttony of bills and playing some of the country’s most prestigious progressive post-rock and metal festivals. Life on the road clearly did the quartet a whole world of good; whilst LTKLTL showed promise, their full-length debut album Because Your Path Is Unlike Any Other solidifies their standing as one of the most impressive and exciting bands to emerge out of the current instrumental UK scene. 
Dialects came together after the demise of guitarist Conor Anderson’s previous band. Feeling somewhat displaced within his local music scene, he began to hang out with members of fellow-Glaswegian melodic alt rock band Atlas: Empire. “We’d been hanging out on a weekly basis” remembers Conor “and their drummer at the time had been wanting to try out a new drum layout. He was just looking for someone to go down to the practise room and jam with him so I mentioned that I was looking for a drummer to try out some new material that I’d just written. So we went down to the practise room and effectively wrote the beginnings of two songs in one session.” 
When a Christmas party, held by Atlas: Empire guitarist Steve Gillies, descended into a litany of uninvited guests and un-festive discomfort, the musicians decided to bail and head to a practise room to knock around a few ideas. “It was just a case of jamming, there weren’t any grand designs to do anything” says Conor. “Then Steve suggested we try out some of the stuff I’d been working on and see if they could help me put it together and write it. From us messing around, we managed to write ‘Spectacular Supernovae’ (from LTKLTL) and make a start on what would eventually became ‘Mountainous’.” 

Tracklist: 
01 Superluminal.flac 
02 Light Echo.flac 
03 Lorentzian.flac 
04 Illusory.flac 
05 When You Die, You're Truly Alone.flac 
06 I'm Not A Comedian.flac 
07 Escape Velocity.flac 
08 It's Not A Ghost... It's Gravity.flac 
09 Because Your Path Is Unlike Any Other.flac 
10 Mountainous.flac 

Summary: 
Country: UK 
Genre: post-rock