The Royal Arctic Institute: The Royal Arctic Institute - Spectrum Culture

The Royal Arctic Institute: The Royal Arctic Institute - Spectrum Culture

For a band named after a fictional organization featured in a young-adult fantasy series (Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials if you didn’t catch it), The Royal Arctic Institute have a fairly adult sound — not to be condescending toward Pullman’s work, which deals with heavy themes and morally complex situations. But the music of The Royal Arctic Institute has little of the epic sweep or mythopoetic grandeur of the kind of music that’s usually i…