At this point, the band’s sound (or at least, one facet of it) was starting to further the rock / chamber music crossover championed by the likes of Rachel’s, using the rich dialect of classical music to fortify the melodies of the guitars. Yet if Rachel’s were like the small chamber orchestra on board the Titanic – swinging gently back and forth, prophetically solemn – then Godspeed were the Titanic, gigantic yet fallible, still dwindled by the mass of water. We return to this idea of ‘humbleness’, as employed by Do Say Make Think’s Charles Spearin to describe Tortoise. Godspeed were a
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