Storm Static Sleep: A Pathway Through Post Rock

by Jack Chuter

It’s the music of immense self-scrutiny; the product of a remix culture that proclaims nothing is fully formed and everything is infinitely sub-divisible. This approach promises unlimited opportunity, but where is the line? Where does the editing stop? “We’re kind of scared of repeating ourselves,” Wolinski admitted to music website Echoes and Dust in 2014. “Often songs will start with some kind of electronic skeleton, or chord progression, but it’ll get ripped apart and put back together in a million different ways. Ninety-nine percent of the time, we do this with songs until they are broken and we have soaked the small spark of an idea that was hidden inside of it with wet, soggy doubt. The other one percent is what makes it on to our records.”