Ventid's Rain Dance for Your Wedding opts for a dizzying mix of '90s post-hardcore and early post/math-rock, setting slow-burning guitars aloft with a vintage recording and minimal vocals that give a little more push to songs like the title track and "Sunny Day for Youth Culture," the latter coming off like pre-pro Shellac demos or something.

This 25-minute-long EP largely floats through on a mid-tempo jam of sorts that kinda blends into one long, linear song. But it's an enjoyable one, broken up occasionally by, say, the violin in "So Post, We're Pre," which adds an attention-grabbing layer that'll snap you back into the proceedings, and more bending guitars and attempts at quieter octave parts for "Sunny Day for Youth Culture." Comparisons have been drawn to early Tortoise -- that makes sense to me. There's a deliberate method to what the band does but it retains a certain rawness to it all anyway.

Rain Dance for Your Wedding has some inherently vague artwork -- dead bird? -- that easily fits what the band is doing. It won't captivate your interest at every single turn but Ventid definitely hold it to some degree for this near-half-hour.

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Rain Dance for Your Wedding
So Post We're Pre
Sunny Day for Youth Culture