A Small Good Thing – Into Flight
This track is one of the nicer pieces of ambient rock I’ve heard in quite a while. You’ve got all the usual elements: quiet intro, swirling guitars, a wordless chorus, and layers upon layers of churning sound. And, most importantly, it bucks the trend of a lot of music that touches in these genres in that these guys sound like they are having fun. Too often shoegaze acts take the name a bit more literally than they ought to, resulting in music that leaves you feeling listless where it tries to make you soar.
Not here. This is a smiling face lifted to the stars, a voice ringing out through the wide expanse, guitars that each strive to out-do the others. And more concretely, it turns out to be exactly what its name promises: a small good thing that reminds you of the joy in being alive.
Into Flight are a five-piece band out of Norwich, London, who walk the line between poppy shoegaze and atmospheric space rock. They’ve just signed with Pit Viper, and are recording some new tracks, which I’m excited to get my hands on.