Uniform Motion typifies the of acoustic indie movement of the times. This band divorces the earthy elements of folk, trading it for some heartfelt indie-pop, and more interestingly, some psychedelia. The wonderfully knotty lyrics and the gushing chorus of the unarguably best cut on Life<\/i>, <\/i>\u201cBack Up Your Soul,\u201d in an instant invokes a neo-indie hipster like Jeff Dimpsey and his band National Skyline rather than someone like Neil Young from his Harvest<\/i> days.<\/p>\n
But after the expectations raised by \u201cBack Up Your Soul,\u201d the rest of Life<\/i> is either disappointing or a great listen. No other track has the same interesting weirdness of \u201cBack Up Your Soul,\u201d and the majority of Life<\/i> has a distinct urban cutesiness, with its passionate yearning songs that are hard to miss. The breathy vocals and the acoustic music that form the backbone to Uniform Motion\u2019s sound have strong resemblance to Elbow\u2019s later catalog. The band doesn\u2019t use much in terms of musical instruments other than the acoustic guitar and the parsimoniously used drums. Still, the music comes out lush and dreamy without sounding excessively reverbed. <\/p>\n
Amongst the ubiquitous melodic pop cuts on Life<\/i>, Uniform Motion dares something like \u201cStorm Eye,\u201d a kind of Blur-like, quirky number that is totally uncharacteristic of this record, and is a standout as a result. In the album\u2019s mix are songs like \u201cSaving Up For Sundays,\u201d \u201cOskar,\u201d and \u201cThe Black Box,\u201d which might be a bit too sugar-glazed. Then there are the cuts \u201cRoll Over\u201d and \u201cDry Eyes\u201d that are beautifully melodic and not as cloying. The simplicity of the music and the absence of other instruments make the acoustic guitar the star of the show, which gives the band an inescapably bucolic charm.<\/p>\n
Life <\/i>embraces the different facets of indie folk and rolls them into its little ball of acoustic music that is almost ethereal in its own humble way. This is not the stuff of folk movement of the yesteryear, but a metamorphosis to keep folk living for ages to come.
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