Previous songs such as In The End might show their fuller, unreconstructed rock ethic at work but Love Is proves to be a much more interesting concept, one that swerves generic expectations and swathes itself in everything from hazy electronica and math rock complexities to deft and dexterous uses of dynamic via calculated lulls and soaring crescendo. Volume and drive might be the go to weapons of the old rock and roll fraternity but Clarity show that you can do just as much with texture and sonic intricacies, by the clever interweaving and layering of the instruments and, most of all, knowing exactly when to take the foot off of the accelerator.
This is the perfect example of the post-genre world at work. Rock, probably more than any other genre, was always a place of absolutes. A place where the rules were well know and those rules were important. Clarity, in this one song, show that those days are over and that rock bands, along with every other genre, are free to experiment, free to skirt around the edges of other musical styles and sounds to create forward-thinking music and write songs that keep things fresh and moving in the right direction. In fact way not just consign the whole idea of genres, labels and musical pigeon-holes to the scrap heap of history.
