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The easy hook in drumming up interest in this admittedly fine group of musicians would be to harp on the connection between two of its members and Mercury Prize Winner (and critical fave) Antony Hegarty-- violinist Maxim Moston is a regular Johnson, and Redhooker mastermind Stephen Griesgraber has also toured and recorded with the group. These associations say very little about this particular project, however. "Trip and Fall" is a song slated to appear on Redhooker's upcoming debut full-length-- they self-released an EP, The Future According to Yesterday, earlier this year-- and it finds the group straying from the Rhodes-driven bent of their first recordings (two of which are available on the group's MySpace page). Instead, this track heads into a fertile and gorgeous territory explored by like-minded groups like Clogs (aka the other group featuring guitarist Bryce Dressner of the National).

Granted, maybe backing a gentle guitar melody with strings and other classical instruments-- in this case, oboe-- will become the loud-soft move of the instrumental post-rock classical set. At least, that might become the case as soon as some enterprising soul comes up with a fitting (and possibly obnoxious) handle for what these groups actually play. That said, if such moves are essayed as well as Redhooker does here, then there's nothing for this would-be sub-genre to worry about.