Kingswood – After Hours, Close to Dawn

After hours, Close to Dawn is a rolling force, unconcerned with its reception. Coming in chilled like relaxed brainwaves, meandering towards the listener’s ears and sliding in smooth and slow.

Melting over the listener like candle wax, taking its time and ignoring any other voice. The malleable listener begins to feel themselves gravitate towards this slow and sad music. Embracing the undisturbed rhythms so that their own thoughts begin to resemble the sound.

Mellow like a light breeze, undirected but moving, Kingswood’s latest masterful combination of the good bits from many genres creeps into its listener, flowing through their blood like autumn leaves, neither pushing nor pulling but floating in between.

This is music that the listener will imbibe without conscious thought but with a pleasant feeling that seems to be inside the songs themselves. (SP)

★★★1/2