Lantern, the latest, is their best-realised work.  Full text...

Lantern is the most fully realized version of Clogs' aesthetic, seamlessly mixing their musical reference points-- classical, European folk, post-rock-- into a unique sound.  Full text...

Lantern, their fourth album, executes music through patience and savvy.  Full text...

"Lantern" recalls the hypnotic drive of post-rock, Ralph Vaughan Williams' pastoral romanticism, the psychedelic jazz of Kevin Ayres' Whole World project and baroque chamber music, without wholly casting its lot in with any of these.   Full text...

'Lantern' is warmer, less tense. It kicks off with a Fahey-style guitar cascade, and then slopes off into the Noir-ish, bluesy '5/4', before galloping into action for the romantic, violin-led '2:3:5' - it's as if they've dashed from dark city to open fields, beautifully.   Full text...

Clogs have a shared formal music background.   Full text...

Clogs are a very different animal indeed. A mostly instrumental ensemble featuring bassoon, melodica, viola, mandola and ukulele in their line-up, they move between chamber pop, avant classical, post-rock and nu-folk territories, using slow-build and repetition techniques to create sensuous, subtle but emotionally overwhelming dreamscapes, whose luminous beauty makes pigeonholing nigh on impossible.  Full text...

There is something incredibly real about the music that the Clogs produce.  Full text...

That’s a mouthful, but the truth is, Clogs’ music makes most of my words superfluous: it hums and floats through evocative moods of tranquility and melancholy, and occasionally, transcendence.  Full text...