Grails - The Burden of Hope

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I was chatting with my friend the other day and he asked me why I chose to have a completely instrumental radio show? Why not play everything I liked and not just a portion of it. I responded by telling him that I believed restrictions spur creativity. In my case, by putting an arbitrary genre restriction on my show I forced myself to delve deeper into every band of the genre I came across and to explore veins of instrumental music I wouldn't have otherwise given the time of day. I like to think it has paid off and I've gained a more cohesive knowledge of at least one type of music. I'm going to use that personal vignette to marry the theme with the band Grails, one of the longest-standing bands in the genre who somehow never disappoint me with every album. How do they do it? It's my belief that by keeping their average song length around four minutes they force themselves to find what they want to say early, say it, and say it well. You aren't going to find any mindless guitar meandering with Grails and if a song is over 6 minutes, there's a good reason. Almost all of their albums are worth possessing but I specifically uploaded this album because track 6, "Space Prophet Dogon", is one of the best instrumental tracks I know. Enjoy.