This is the Canadian band’s sixth album. Comprising four tracks simply entitled ‘Do,’ ‘Make,’ ‘Say’ and (you guessed it) ‘Think,’ they refuse to compromise and make an album that is directly on their terms, and yet excites and is enjoyable to listen to, rather than being an album that you feel you have to respect, even if you can’t bear to listen to it.
If I were going to speak in genres (!) then I might consider DMST to be ‘post-rock’ in the sense that they are not interested here in dealing with verse-chorus-verse-chorus-middle 8 etc.. but instead start following a line of enquiry which they may break off from, but then return to at a later point in the piece. There’s hints of jazz here, and -dare I say it – prog?And yet at the same time, they seem to have just as much in common with the spirit and attitude of Fugazi as say, Tortoise.
Four tracks, three of them over ten minutes long…on paper this might sound a forbidding proposition, and yet, the reality is that DMST are an astonishingly easy band to love. Cast aside your prejudices and be prepared to be impressed.
(This review originally appeared at 17seconds)