Read my entire review on The Silent Ballet.Lawrence English creates soundscapes.It's Up to Us to Live treats the listener to a dynamic world of texture, where tones and organic clutter roam free. Guitars sometimes surface like mysterious ocean-dwelling mammals on a vast, seaweedy expanse, revealing that this laptop dream we are having is populated by real instruments. Like a rainforest, English rarely lets us see the animals we know are there. The soft-focus distortion of the jungle (or music) commands our perception, little details bursting forth everywhere, and on rare occasions an ocelot (guitar line) will dart out from behind a tree and disappear moments later. Reviewing a record like this is as ridiculous as reviewing a particular forest you happen to be enjoying. What would be the point?
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