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Post by Tosh on Jan 26, 2009 13:50:34 GMT -5
Capulet - "The World Is A Tragic Place, But There Is Grace All Around Us So Attend The Grace" Debut album from the untameable Preston, England quartet, containing some of the sweetest guitar melodies you are likely to hear, allied to explosive, near feral passages of heart stopping distorted aggression. An album that’s as hard to predict as it is to turn off, and one, surely, destined to be remembered as a true classic of post-rock.
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Post by Tosh on Feb 6, 2009 8:00:21 GMT -5
Balmorhea -All Is Wild, All Is Silent Got this from Cheeky D and I have to say it's stunning!!
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Post by Dave on Feb 17, 2009 13:21:52 GMT -5
Lights Out Asia - Garmonia "Crystalline beats submerge in lengthy structures as the dynamic of daytime slows to a crawl in this coastal trek along the icy Aleutian Archipelago. The cascading digital delays exhumed from Aurore Rien no longer chain into crests of volume; they now act as the melodic counterpart to the gurgling electronics and stoic piano phrases which define Lights Out Asia's musical vocabulary. Not everything is glacial; Chris Schafer's evocative vocals recall Talk Talk's Mark Hollis, providing much needed warmth in their periodic usage." Been awfy quiet on this thread or it'll just turn into a stupidly long list of everything in my playlist these days ;D But gotta mention - From Monument To Masses - On Little Known Frequencies Quite simply the finest thing I've heard in a long, long time.
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Post by Dave on Feb 26, 2009 10:08:04 GMT -5
Hualun - Silver Daydream Chinese post-rock with some freakin wacky production - similar to Deepset in that respect - everything's panned hard left/right, recorded to tape and sounds interesting as hell as a result. Must be an Asian/Far Eastern Studio trick................I shall investigate..........
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Post by Tosh on Mar 3, 2009 12:24:33 GMT -5
This Is A Process Of A Still Life - s/t gorgeous!
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Post by Dave on Mar 4, 2009 12:30:39 GMT -5
AU4 - On:Audio[/size] Shoegaze-Ambient-IDM-Post Rock - all in one from these Canadian genii. Def my pick o the week so far lol
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Post by Dave on Mar 31, 2009 18:15:24 GMT -5
If These Trees Could Talk - Above The Earth, Below The Sky Sitting back in my chair and with a mug of warm tea in hand, I hit the play button. “Ahhh” I sigh, “it’s good to be home”. Post-Rock can take over your life, believe it. Most of it doesn’t hold any form of lyrical structure or vocals and you’d be a fool to expect any sight of a chorus (even on some of the most accessible tracks that actually do contain some form of a voice). You never quite realise it’s your favourite genre until you go back to it and find that a whole host of new bands have been handed the torch from the forefathers of the genre and taken it to new heights. The music becomes addictive in the sense that you can either sit in awe at the beauty at hand or lose yourself to every track and awake an hour later, wondering what the hell just happened. If These Trees Could Talk haven’t exactly been on the Post-Rock scene for long but already we can assure you that this name will not be forgotten. The record at hand (their debut LP) shoots to dizzying heights within its first few seconds and never once comes back down for its entire duration. Every single moment is an absolutely gleaming example of genre perfection and faultless musicianship. What’s In The Ground Belongs To You is like being caught at sea before an impending storm. It batters and bruises and then calms before becoming a tsunami of epic proportions. The riff relentlessly smashes at the vessel's broken remains before letting the percussion take it beneath its murky depths. Above The Earth is a gentle landscape which builds on an echoed guitar and faint snares before morphing into successive track Below The Sky. What was once a calming atmosphere becomes a gloomy, more immediate mood filled with tension and unease. Deep bass runs through the undercurrent and echoed, layered guitar serves as the surface. When the break comes (and you know it's coming) there’s nothing you can do but bask in the utter chaos that ensues. Having good speakers or headphones is a must. Looking for similarities within a genre such as post-rock is relatively easy but with this group, it’s clear to see their influences sit a little further left than just the genre they reside in. Sure there’s your obvious dose of Explosions In The Sky dotted around and there’s definitely a sense of impending doom a la Mogwai but there’s also metal drizzled on top of this record (the almost Tool-like bass and rhythm) and although that’s also not a rarity with regards to the genre, it’s done in such a subtle manner here that it works better than most we’ve heard before. Thirty-Six Silos goes supernova at the three minute mark and it’s honestly one of the greatest bits of noise this writer has heard in a fair few post-rocky years. It’s difficult to explain why the cacophony sounds so appealing, so please: just give it a listen yourself and we’re 99% sure you’ll agree. The heart-breaking thing about this record is that it won’t do half as well as it deserves. In today's music industry, the smaller bands (with the most talent) suffer because they don’t have mainstream appeal or “the look” and it’s this that frustrates the most. This band has more talent than any band you’ve seen on MTV2’s Top 10 and it’s a shame that because they’re considered “too loud” or “too edgy” they just simply won’t get the respect and acclaim they deserve. Above The Earth, Below The Sky is one of 2009’s strongest releases and is an artistically crafted sight/sound to behold. It swoops and dives and hurts and soothes and will blow your fucking mind.
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Post by Dave on Apr 7, 2009 14:46:08 GMT -5
Il Cielo Di Bagdad - Export For Malinconique"Il Cielo Di Bagdad’s instrumental music can simply be described as moody instrumental chords-loops minimalist rock, like a collection of “outros-rock” and last goodbyes-instrumentals, with chord by chord buildings on electric bass and guitars, and other instruments like simple melodies on piano and glockenspiel, some feedbacks effects and environmental background talks, and ambient drones, wounded together with nice cushen close harmonies, and building up to heavier hazes with additional drums, oscillating electric guitars and background keyboards."
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Post by Dave on May 8, 2009 13:26:20 GMT -5
Hotly anticipated and well worth wait, it's........ Signal Hill - More After We're Gone[/size] Amazingly beautiful and jawdroppingly unique.
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Post by Tosh on May 18, 2009 17:29:37 GMT -5
This Is Your Captain Speaking - Eternal Return
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Post by Tosh on May 24, 2009 4:05:40 GMT -5
The Evpatoria Report - Maar
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Post by Tosh on Jun 21, 2009 10:02:47 GMT -5
Final Days Society - "Noise Passes,silence Remains"
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Post by Dave on Sept 13, 2009 9:24:28 GMT -5
Amazing stuff. New album due out in Nov as well - superb!
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