A ghost hovers over instrumental rock outfit the Drift's third proper LP, Blue Hour. After 2008's , the band reunited with original bassist Trevor Montgomery. But as a band member returned, another was saying goodbye: Jeff Jacobs, who primarily handled horn duties, died of cancer, giving the group his blessing to carry on without him before he passed away. The remaining members of the Drift chose not to replace him, and anyone with a working knowledge of the their back catalog thus far would understand why. He was far from just a brass sideman; the successes of and 2005's debut LP were a result of not only the band's spacious dub-inflected sound at the time, but also the splashes of color that Jacobs' horn work lent to it. His wide emotional vocabulary allowed his contributions to range far outside the Drift's loosely drawn lines.