REVIEW: Bravestation - Giants & Dreamers

Bravestation - Giants & Dreamers

If you've spent a year on this fine planet of ours, you've undoubtedly observed the changing of the seasons – or even the daily exchange of sun for moon and moon for sun. There's something inexplicably beautiful about the subtleties that characterize these transitions: the way the leaves begin to turn color at the introduction of cold or the way the sun sets not against a blue canvas but rather one decorated with a multitude of brilliant orange, pink, and blue hues. It’s all organic, a series of natural events that mark the passage of time. But that doesn’t change the fact that the sight, or the feeling, of such things is rather surreal.

LISTEN: Miracles of Modern Science - "Tensity" + "Eating Me Alive"

Miracles of Modern Science sounds like the moniker for some great, obscure indie pop band from, I don't know, Scotland or some Midwest American town -- at least to me. Anyways, my initial assumption was completely obliterated, in the best way possible, when I discovered that Miracles of Modern Science is actually a five-piece, orchestral pop/indie rock band from Brooklyn which features nothing but stringed instruments. And while that might sound fairly normal, it's rather exciting, and unexpectedly great, to discover that those stringed instruments are cello, double bass, violin, and mandolin. Yes, there's a drum kit, but other than that, no guitars or anything of that nature -- and it works so well.