The music seeps into your head slowly, gently easing its way into your consciousness like a slow trickle of water through a cracked window. The gentle, finger-picked guitar melodies seem almost fragile, their notes guarded and supported by languorous piano and mournful violin.
Nothing is rushed.
The Principles of Science is not a sad record. If you can imagine Leonard Cohen fronting Low, you'll get the basic idea. Sackville's frontman, Gabe Levine, sounds nothing like Cohen, but there are similarities in their subdued, pastoral compositions and confessional lyrical style. Not one of these six tracks will quite manage to knock you on your back, but their gathered strength is impressively elegant. Content may not be reproduced without our express permission.