Bell Orchestre — Recording A Tape Of Colour Of The Light

Montreal's Bell Orchestre are probably best known for their two main players — Arcade Fire's Richard Reed Parry and Sarah Neufeld. The all-instrumental Orchestre show some tremendous promise on their first record. "Les Lumieres Pt. 2" has charming pop sensibility, while the urgent "THROW IT ON A FIRE" is wickedly complex, if a little over-ambitious. The main problem with Bell Orchestre's debut is that they can't keep up the momentum. The record spends most of its latter half meandering aimlessly, but there's enough in the first half to suggest the band will sort out the kinks and have a bright future ahead.

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