We first wrote about Tyler Costolo’s Two Meters project back in the summer of 2018 when we premiered the Floridian’s debut release, EP1. The album “achieves what at first appears a paradoxical hybrid,” we wrote, “blending the sincere intimacy of bedroom pop with the urgent weight of ambient into what are either condensed epics or impossibly rich snapshots.” The result was an enveloping and strikingly open meditation on loss and grief, somehow managing to distil the process of mourning into five succinct songs.
Today we’re delighted to be able to share the lead single from a brand new Two Meters release, The Blue Jay EP, coming this May on Very Jazzed. Developing the vulnerability and tenderness of EP1, ‘Ground’ sees Costolo further blur the dividing lines between pop, post-rock and ambient, conjuring a sound that manages to make personal experiences appear vast and weighed with meaning.
The opening build has elements of early-career Wintersleep, an ominous creep that threatens to explode into violent crescendo, though in fact the opposite occurs, the track dialling down to a small point. However, the vocals are inversely-related to the instrumentation, progressing from Costolo’s detached mumble into something altogether more impassioned and desperate, his voice joined by another that stretches and strains under the forces of emotion.
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The Blue Jay EP will be released via Very Jazzed on the 17th May and you can pre-order it from Bandcamp.
