Body Origami – Thermal Blue EP

Body Origami are a trio from Nashville Tennessee, they describe themselves as glacial atmospheric rock, I’m not sure about the glacial bit but this is definitely an atmospheric indie release. This follows on from last years Acoustic Variations single, and their 2014 EP Hadal, and has built upon the sound that was developed in those releases.

Thermal Blue has an appropriately wintery feel to it, it is slow paced and has an eerie ethereal quality that is present across all three tracks contained on this EP, this sounds like the soundtrack to a crisp winters morning, a very quiet winters morning. Body Origami gradually build up the layers of sound over the three tracks until you reach the final track, Bright Hunger, the liveliest song on here, although it must be stated that even on this track the music would barely register as having a pulse, to say that this is laid back would be an understatement.

If you a fan of atmospheric indie then you should probably check out Thermal Blue‘s bandcamp, this EP drifts over you in an agreeable but, if I’m honest, rather bland way, and I’m left with no lasting impression of Thermal Blue. Some variation in the tone and pace is needed at some point, I found that the three tracks just merged into each other and the EP became repetetive. Musically there is some similarity to the excellent Grandaddy, but unlike that band they don’t inject any adrenaline into any of their compositions and as a result this EP seems to fall just short of the mark.

 You can buy the Thermal Blue EP here