We’re just three best mates playing music together and seeing how far we can take it. He does admit, though, that the concept is loose: “We don’t want people to think we’re a pretentious band because we’re really not. “We’ve taken the standout riffs on The Owl and developed them further.” “I’ve carefully structured the samples between songs and there are subtle references to what’s come before,” reveals Beardsley. So much so, The Squid begins with track six. Gravitating around an eternal war between the owl (wise and collected, the manifestation of their structured, intelligent musical approach) and the squid (which represents both their brawn and slippery twists and turns), both releases flow beautifully from one to another. The results of their experiments are two conceptual EPs, The Owl and The Squid. Very much a modern band, they are representative of a society that has access to anything and everything all at once, and they blur borders for fun. Their grooves are devastatingly contagious and so when they meander down dark, obscure avenues, you willingly follow. Across their songs you’ll hear dark, cascading chord progressions not unlike those of Opeth and the avant-garde playing of Steve Vai, all underpinned by a rhythm section pulsating with a dazzling chemistry.
Their music has been described as Karnivool jamming with TesseracT and they wear their influences proudly. The Parallax Method started out as an instrumental side project, but things have since blossomed for the three-piece. As such, this band couldn’t have a better name. Its details may be complex, but it’s ultimately fascinating. The parallax method and what we learnt from Chelyabinsk could prove vital in our defence against more deadly meteors in future. It led them on an incredible path of discovery about a phenomenon which, while it may have inspired many great works of science fiction, still poses a terrifyingly real threat to humanity. However, through combining video footage taken from the dashcams of cars with the parallax method – which measures distances through triangulation – scientists were able to pinpoint the exact path it took through the cosmos.