Telepathy – ‘Burn Embrace’

Instrumental music is a notoriously tricky beast to get right. Throw too much musicianship in there and it becomes impenetrable, not enough, and it’s not likely to be interesting enough to keep the listener’s attention. Make your songs too long and you may struggle to fill them with quality material; too short and they won’t have the space that all good ‘post’ music needs to breathe. There’s a balance to be found, and not all who attempt to find it manage to do so. Colchester-based post-metal quartet Telepathy have been making a pretty good go of it so far, releasing two solid albums and landing themselves high-profile support slots with the likes of Solstafir and Saint Vitus, as well as appearing at prestigious festivals like ArcTanGent, Roadburn and Desertfest. ‘Burn Embrace’, the band’s...