Bodhicitta – Touch The Buffalo (reviewed by Dave Franklin)

With the current and curiously named single, In Six Heads About It, leading the sonic charge, Touch The Buffalo is seemingly on a mission to crush, side-step or charge through every musical demarcation, every generic boundary and every stylistic barrier they come across. That single itself is a case in point, rising out of an alt-folk landscape, wandering through intense, shoegazing realms and shimmering walls of noise before taking a lateral step and heading into a sort of slow, brooding psychedelic soundscape. that’s one helluva journey.

This City’s Burning is a mercurial blend of emo and alt rockscapes, ebbing and flowing between mid-paced salvos and doom-laden steps; The Carpenter and the Nurse throws a real curveball, a piano-driven piece that sounds like early Billy Joel, had he learned his trade playing in alt-rock bands rather than for tips in piano bars (which if you go back far enough, he kinda did). Hope’s Song returns us to the chiming, charming work of folk infusions and dream-pop ethereality of the single.

It’s a strange mix but a clever one, and I’ll take that over, tried and tested any day of the week.

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