Name: Stubborn Persistent Illusions
Brand: Do Make Say Think

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CST120

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2017-05-19

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Secre­tly

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Sales:8.875

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666561012021

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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Do Make Say Think

Genre US

Post Rock

Label US

Constellation

Do Make Say Think is a Toronto-based instrumental rock band that formed in 1995-96. They released their self-titled debut CD in 1997, which was later re-issued by Constellation Records. The band consists of four founding members - *Ohad Benchetrit*, *James Payment*, *Justin Small*, and *Charles Spearin* - with additional members joining over the years.
Known for their highly original blend of psych, jazz, punk, and electronica, Do Make Say Think consistently delivers critically acclaimed albums that push the boundaries of post-rock. Their music combines noise, narrative depth, compositional skill, inventive mixing and editing techniques, and melodic hooks to create compelling instrumental rock.
The band has garnered a dedicated following in North America and Europe through extensive touring across continents. They have also fostered collaborations within other groups such as *Justin's messy garage-soul rave-up* and Charles' and Ohad's work together in playing and producing. Do Make Say Think continues to record independently at their own studio in Toronto.

Do Make Say Think has been widely celebrated as one of the preeminent instrumental rock bands of the 90s-00s. Stubborn Persistent Illusions is the group's first album in eight years - and a brilliant addition to one of the most consistently inventive and critically praised discographies in the 'post-rock' canon. The band has been acclaimed as "the supernova in Constellation's stellar network...arguably the finest back catalogue of any currently operating instrumental rock band" (Drowned In Sound), creating "some of the most honest, unpretentious, group-oriented rock of their time" (Popmatters). Among the band's strengths is an ineffable naturalism that avoids anything too woolly, proggy, purist or clichéd, while remaining a fundamentally guitar-driven group whose ornate four-and six-string interplay uniquely balances rockism, pastoralism, and electronic-influenced post-production. Stubborn Persistent Illusions is at once familiar and as fresh as anything DMST has committed to tape; produced and mixed as always by the band itself - a continuing affirmation of the group's DIY ethos and their singular self-production acumen and aesthetic. Do Make Say Think enter their third decade with a new album that reaffirms their promise of genuinely expressive, narrative and restorative instrumental rock music - an one that will surely rank among their best.

Stubborn Persistent Illusions

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