Band: Pg.Lost
Album: In Never Out
Year: 2009
Label: Black star Foundation
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Best Song: Crystalline
Score: 9/10
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In Never Out clearly rides on the wave of infinity. The strangest thing about the infinity is the end. Pg.Lost solves the mystery in a bit modern way; by simply keeping it covered with tension, melancholy, robotic rhythms, melodic patterns, which may seem endless. But the album itself is not endless; it actually ends in a very natural way. Roughly said, it moves trough with such persistence and craftiness that the listener can be sure there was not a single note that slipped their minds.  Leaving the ending not tragically but inevitable.

In other words Pg.Lost’s latest full length In Never Out deals with extremes. It’s progressing while standing still; it’s lost while shining so bright, it’s so machinelike, yet so emotional, yet so powerful and yet so so much more. It feels safe, but every time I listen I feel surprised. One is sure; In Never Out is much darker, and somewhat heavier than their previous releases.

Pg.Lost goes trough the basics of post-rock, mainly building their songs on the art of crescendo, but they do it with more class than any other lost poet who happens to be wandering the ethereal parts of music. The song “Crystalline” starts with a half-time beat, which sounds very robotic, it seems constant, painfully constant. All the instrumentation is laid on that same beat. The perfection of that drum line is haunting, it almost seems like its not allowed to change or use any fills, like a machine it has to keep the same thing going. The song plays itself half trough, when at 5:30 it falls completely apart. Yet, the song starts over, this time with a new drum line (well pretty much new). The same routine continues nothing changes about the beat except some cymbal use in the very end. The tune itself gets louder. For me it’s heart breaking, thereís nothing that annoys me about that song, Iím completely captivated by the silent movement, it’s like a progress which isn’t bringing any changes for us.

I think the whole album can be described like that. It’s always continuing, the songs are following each other fluently and its crafted near perfection. Which makes the album sound like thereís nothing human about it, yet for some reason it sounds so safe and so beautiful. I feel capsized from what I believed music was. So I was wrong earlier, it is bringing a lot of changes, and I doubt that only for me

To be frank I feel threatened by adjectives when it comes to In Never Out, its an album you must listen, words can be clever little things but they are not enough to describe music worthy to be titled as art.

TRACKLIST:

1. Prahanien
2. Jura
3. Heart of Hearts
4. Still Alright
5. Crystalline
6. Gomez