A SIGN OF GREAT THINGS TO COME
If any rock band
featured in this magazine is set to explode this year, it’s The Myriad. The
Seattle quintet found momentum opening for David Crowder Band on its recent
fall tour. The largest spotlight, however, came by unexpectedly winning “MTV2’s
Breakout Band of 2008”—an honor providing intense marketing year-round for the
Koch Records artist.
The Prelude
to Arrows is just that, the antecedent to
With Arrows, With Poise, The Myriad’s full-length follow-up to its
2005 debut,
You Can’t Trust a Ladder.
The five-song EP finds the band largely abandoning the Euro-rock that brought
them here, retaining only Jeremy Edwardson’s yearning vocal delivery and some
musical atmospherics.
Think Sleeping At Last with a slightly more
aggressive sound.
“A Thousand Winters Melting” is more piano
pop ditty than soaring Brit-rock number and is as catchy as the band’s ever
been. “Forget What You Came For” builds to perfection and is clearly the EP’s
highlight. Edwardson has never sounded better. Mute Math-like sonic textures
are found on “The Holiest of Thieves.”
Prelude
ultimately feels like what it is—a tiny taste of goodness—but it’s still an
impressive sign of things to come.
-- Matt Conner