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The Who liked to smash up hotel rooms. The Beatles liked to trip on acid. Mick Jagger and Jim Morrison were renown for their voracious sexual appetites. I’m lead to believe that I Am The Branch, however, likes to drink tea. That’s all. No sex, no drugs, no rock n’ roll because this is the most boring collection of songs ever written. Literally. Ambient music, drone experiments, pointless noise a la Metal Machine Music, hell, even John Cage’s “4’33″ seems as exciting as a weekend in Vegas compared to the Drink Tea EP. 
Here’s the I Am The Branch philosophy: take some of the pretty post-rock leanings of bands like Do Make Say Think or Explosions in the Sky when at their most boring and combine it with the sound of Death Cab For Cutie at their most sensitive and ingratiating. Recipe for success? No. Not by a long shot. It also doesn’t help when an already boring band’s lyricist is so lazy that on two songs, 70% of the song features a singer with a delicate, characterless voice repeating over and over lines like, “It’s just natural for weeds to grow over windows,†and, “And I brought bricks that you built cathedrals with.â€
This EP doesn’t deserve a review, it didn’t deserve to be made and it doesn’t deserve to be heard. It’s a good thing Obama is shutting down Guantanamo because this could have seriously been used to drive “suspected terrorists†insane.
To conclude: I wasn’t fond of the Drink Tea EP.
Tracklisting:
01. Drink Tea
02. If Yes, Do
03. The Science of Silence
04. Charlevoix
05. Fight
06. Like Cathedrals
Written By: Marc Z. Grub
Haha, I loved this review.
>>To conclude: I wasn’t fond of the Drink Tea EP.>>
Good thing you wrote that, cuz I would have had no idea you felt that way
i love this album maybe you should stop being so closed minded