The follow-up to Terrapath, the band’s debut album, Flare finds prog-, math, and jazz-rock-injected indie rockers Plantoid pushing their shape-shifting sound in even more directions. It was again produced by sometimes live member Nathan Ridley, who helped them both stretch their stylistic palette and settle down their tendency toward abrupt changes, instead staying with moods for a little while longer.
This has resulted in some lengthier track times, with four of the nine songs here passing the six-minute mark. It has also contributed to spacey, atmospheric entries like the daydreamy “Slow Moving,” whose elongated, sustain-suffused design doesn’t feel the need to burst into a more uptempo jam. A song like “The Weaver” is…

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