Band : My Education  
Album Title : Bad Vibrations
Label : Strange Attractors
Distributor : Clearspot
Release Date : 2008
Review : CD

Three full-length albums, several compilation appearances and multiple singles are to their credit, including a must-have 12" vinyl collaboration with avant hip-hop act Dalek released last year. Additionally, My Education have received the remix treatment by Kinski, Pelican, Red Sparowes and the aforementioned Dalek, and even have composed an original score to the F.W. Murnau 1927 silent film Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, which premiered at the famed Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in March 2007.

Their fourth album Bad Vibrations emits vibes of Mogwai, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Husky and  Kinski crossed with a cinematic sound. The music is mysterious and depressing, while at the same time remaining angelic & reminds me of a much heavier Sigur Ros. The builds and eventual crescendos are well rendered with suitably ambient and tasteful pacing and like Mogwai tend to explode with a controlled yet volatile peak. The band uses many approaches from heavier guitars to acoustic, pianos, keyboards, lapsteel guitars and ebbs and flows in intensity, all of which adds up to a complete piece. With the intelligent use of viola and vibraphone, it contributes significantly to the dark melancholic tone of this masterwork.

90/100

Cosmicmasseur.