cause & effect

Local instrumental group, The Magnetic Pull takes you on a trip with their March 2010 self-produced release, Anhedonia. Throughout, the music swirls, tumbles, rises, grows and contracts. The ebbs and flows of guitars, keyboards, synth, piano, bass, drums and a slew of digital effects give the distinct feeling of weightlessness in the opening track of the album, “consumer,” which remain throughout much of the album. The anthemic first track runs more than 18 minutes and leads into the spacey “rubicon,” where unintelligible vocals fade in and out. Distinct piano lines gently strike over sighing vocals, persistently growing drums and an ambient backdrop of wind-like sounds. The song becomes more frantic near the end, ultimately dropping back to electronic sounds winding up to high pitches and spiraling down.

“the silence and the space” begins with a vocal monologue and leads into an eerie amalgamation of sounds led by keyboard lines, synth chords and tones rising and falling, again over a full ambient background, ultimately breaking into the clear with wide open vocals.

All of the tracks bleed directly into the next throughout the album, making the trip a consistent one through time and space. Though the feeling of weightlessness is maintained, you may touch ground when the beats get heavier for a time on “cause & effect.” Everything comes down by the end of “gabriella the wise” and slowly grows into the final track, “audition for your freedom,” an appropriately formless closer bound only by looped effects and a straight forward drum beat to keep it moving in a forward direction.

The group will be playing the Lost Horizon on Saturday, July 30 along with Bad News, Runaway Hudson, The New Daze, Thrifter and Live in the Lounge. The show is all-ages, $7 and doors open at 7 p.m.