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The 12 songs on Lines We Trace represent a band steady enough in its sound poignant, panoramic, unreservedly gorgeous that it can expand beyond it. The string section that hums throughout Elegy quintessentially sweeping, Hey Marseilles style shifts into finely composed abstraction for the song s final minute. Colin Richey s skittering rhythm on Bright Stars Burning is a gentle breakbeat, a sly nod to atmospheric drum n bass. Madrona and the album-closing Demian are Hey Marseilles first fully instrumental songs, a pair of echo-laden piano-and-cello dirges that are simultaneously solemn and sumptuous.