Intricate and interesting
Opening the album with 'Adama', Slow Burning Car begin with a track that heightens your senses as your ears follow snippets of sound. They appear and disappear, teasing you and causing your head to turn in an attempt to catch every nuance. Each snippet, each word, each noise, each sound sits perfectly on top of the one before it, turning the tracks into layers and layers of mind altering music. The beginning of 'Volume 2: The Scattering' is creative and unusual.
'In The Trees' marks a move to a batch of more accessible track that have a broader appeal with it's laid back beats and slightly more predictable guitars. 'Man In Crisis' is bouncy and smooth combining some of the layered sounds of the earlier tracks with a more consistent flow, while 'Siren' is a slow floating ballad. Then there are tracks such as 'Harum Scarum' that just scream at you to have fun.
'Marry Me' takes on a completely different vibe, a more positive key and decidedly radio friendly. It departs from the sound of the rest of the album and is a well crafted lovely little song, if somewhat unexpected.
Track after track fills you with surprise as they show off their ability to produce music that can take you from pure dancing highs to neurotic confused lows while always keeping that undefinable vibe that marks this music as theirs.
Even their most mainstream tracks are not going to appeal to all. Some will consider it just "noise", some will gravitate towards certain tracks, but the people that matter will embrace it for the experimental blended creative stuff that it is.
If you could only listen to one song from Slow Burning Car then I would suggest
'Blowback', don't get hung up on the fact that it is a political song, go with the melody as it attacks with words and music the lyrics spat out and the background a relentless, pounding rhythm I suggest this one as it's a shining example of a track tht evokes the feelings it's aiming for, while still being an intricate melodic piece.
Slow Burning Car is all about sonic exploration and they take you there with them.