While SHARKS KEEP MOVING's name drips of immediacy, the music contained on Desert Strings and Drifters is anything but the urgent struggle for survival the name implies. Quite the opposite, this four-song, 28-minute suite unfurls itself as a patient sonic journey, littered with indie rock trappings, psychedelic flurries, morose melodies and the occasional rock spasm, all perfectly balanced by Jake Snider's (MINUS THE BEAR) plaintive, fleeting vocals. Lackadaisical in its nature, Desert Strings and Drifters inhabits the realm between the conscious and the sub-conscious, where dreams and the cognitive thought process collide. Desert Strings and Drifters is best absorbed as a whole, lest one miss any of its beauty, passion and emotion.
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