1. Lost & Noticed
2. ☆☆☆☆☆
1. Sensuous Tree
2. Believing Dreams
3. Waves Of Influence Strike Within What Truly Moves You
4. Song Of Nature
5. Hopeless Progress
Showing posts with label post-rock. Show all posts
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Wednesday, 11 February 2026
Naiad
Saturday, 23 December 2023
Parannoul
Parannoul (파란노을) is a post-rock/shoegaze/emo project from Seoul, South Korea. Any other information about them is unknown as they operate completely anonymously, though it does seem to be just one person. They first began releasing music online in 2017 using the moniker laststar, which became Parannoul in 2020. He's also used the name Mydreamfever. Parannoul is a name I've seen pop up for the last few years now, and admittedly never took the time to delve into. Even when After The Magic a Topshelf release garnering positive acclaim, I still didn't get around to listening to it. I fully admit to being ashamed of myself, because it took me up until a few weeks ago to experience the lush and gorgeous experience this album has to offer.
It's artwork really encapsulates the feelings this record evokes, with an amplified brightness and burst of colour from the sun's reflection on freshly fallen snow. It's captures that shimmer through 10 tracks of beautiful guitar work that sounds absolutely massive on cuts like "Arrival" and "Imagination" or contemplative like "We Shine At Night" or "After The Magic". It's paired with a varied instrumental palette, which extends to strings and electronics. Vocally, the melodies are absolutely mesmering, particularly "We Shine At Night". Much like Sigur Rós, there's an emotional conveyance despite not being able to understand the actual words, and the vocals work in tandem with the instrumentals to create one seamless work. I'm sure this isn't doing it any justice, it's worth just checking out for yourself, and I look forward to going through his back catalogue to close out this year. Enjoy.
1. Today's Sky Is Clear
2. Dream Hallucination
3. Path of a Blue Cat
4. Meaning Of Change
5. Bright Dark, Lost Shoelaces, One Year Of Failure
6. Alone In The Forest
7. Tone After Tone
8. Reincarnation
9. Meaning Of Disappear
10. The Next Day
1. Into The Endless Night
1. Beautiful World
2. Excuse
3. Analong Sentimentalism
4. White Ceiling
5. To See the Next Part of the Dream
6. Age Of Fluctuation
7. Youth Rebellion
8. Extra Story
9. Chicken
10. I Can Feel My Heart Touching You
1. Escape
2. Someday
3. Soft Bruise
4. White Ceiling
5. Growing Pain
6. Ending Credit
1. Parannoul & Asian Glow - Hand
2. Parannoul & Asian Glow - The Light Side Of The Eyes
3. Parannoul & Asian Glow - Neoup
4. Parannoul & Asian Glow - Wheel
1. Asian Glow - Nails
2. Parannoul - Insomnia
3. Sonhas Tomam Conta - Todos Os Sonhos Que Eu Tive
4. Asian Glow - Phone Ringing On Corridor
5. Parannoul - Colors
6. Sonhas Tomam Conta - Tons De Azul
7. Asian Glow - One May Be Harming
8. Sonhas Tomam Conta - Vento Caminha Comigo
9. Parannoul - 70 Seconds Before Sunrise
10. Parannoul - Love Migraine
1. Polaris
2. Insomnia
3. Arrival
4. We Shine At Night
5. Parade
6. Sketchbook
7. Imagination
8. Sound Inside Me, Waves Inside You
9. Blossom
10. After The Magic
1. Polaris
2. Beautiful World
3. Analog Sentimentalism
4. Soft Bruise
5. Imagination
6. I Can Feel My Heart Touching You
7. White Ceiling
8. Into The Endless Night
Saturday, 9 December 2023
Deathcrash
deathcrash are a four-piece slowcore/post-rock band from London, England that formed in 2018. They debuted with a series of self-recordings featuring relatively, reverb-heavy lo-fi arpeggios and meandering, drawl-like vocals. Along with the occasional distorted, dissonant climaxes, you get a sound that sits at the intersection between Codeine, Mogwai, and Slint. They quickly progressed and refined that foundational sound over an EP and debut LP, which saw them craft these sprawling songs with cleaner production. They also come more into their own sonically, moving away from the obvious influence that permeated their earliest material.
Earlier this year, their sophomore album Less was released. This is a much more subdued, almost sparse affair. There's a tinge of midwest emo influence, along with these whisper-thin, quivering vocals. This is a somber, reflective and melancholic listen, with each note seeming to ring out and linger. The build-ups are layered but still sound spacious, with some potent highs being hit, particularly on "Empty Heavy" and "Dead, Crashed", which incorporate these layered, almost screamed vocals. It's a stark contrast to the record's predominantly slow pace, which makes it sound that much more immense. Anyway, this is one of the year's finest albums in my opinion, so if it sounds like it's up your alley, do yourself a favour and give it a listen if you haven't already. Enjoy!
1. Slumber
2. Bones
1. Don't Shoot!
2. Slowed
3. Sclarb
4. Hydraulic Jump
5. Speed
1. People thought my windows were stars
2. Bind
3. songs m i-iv
1. Sundown
2. Unwind
3. Horses
4. American Metal
5. Matt's Song
6. Wrestle With Jimmy
7. Metro I
8. Slowday
9. Was Living
10. What To Do
11. Doomcrash
12. The Low Anthem
Tuesday, 7 February 2023
Barrow
Barrow were a four-piece post-hardcore/screamo/post-rock band from Greensboro, North Carolina that formed in 2009 and ended in 2015, with a final reunion show taking place in 2017. They released two full-lengths, a split, and demo in that time. This band's sound is pretty hard to pin down, as it was incredibly dynamic, layered, and above all, cathartic. As a rudimentary description, they blended the heavy, rhythmtic lurching of post-hardcore acts with the chaosa and impassioned vocals of screamo, all between intermittent breaks of lush, reverb and delay-heavy guitars and melodic singing borrowed from post-rock. It's a sound that could appeal to a wide spectrum of fans of bands as varied as Apart, Caravels, or Moving Mountains. Barrow also made incredible use of their two vocalists, who played off and with each other so naturally, making everything sung or screamed absolutely magnified. This band was incredible, and worth finally getting around to share on here. If you're new to this band, my suggested starting point would be Being Without. Members now play in Rotting In Dirt, who are absolutely worth checking out too. Enjoy.
1. Where I Was
2. Monochromatic
3. Stretching Arms, Shaking Hands
4. In Blight And Boast
5. The Undertow
6. An Absent Crown, My Diadem
7. Sundown
8. Ashen, Pallid
1. Fox Ears And Silence
2. A Dead Hum, Echoed
3. Wither
4. Old Time
5. Fed (Choking, Retching)
6. Clawhold
7. Dogwood
8. You Can Probably Find It In Norfolk
9. God's In His Heaven - All Is Well
1. Barrow - Resembool
2. Oddczar - Purple Hearts
Saturday, 19 November 2022
Fall Of Efrafa
The primary trilogy consists of three albums: Owsla, Elil, and Inlé were released over a four-year period and compiled in their entirety as The Warren Of Snares. Sonically, this band is very hard to pin down, but I'll give you a quick rundown of each entry. Owsla is the most bombastic and crust-oriented, with heavy use of d-beat and harsh, guttural vocals. Elil is cinematic and tension-building, with extensive instrumental interludes taking influence from post-rock. They conjure up a dismal atmosphere reminiscent of the apocalyptic landscapes of Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Inlé takes influence from sludge and doom metal whilst still being melodic and forlorn, with the vocals being their most cathartic. Though they all do this, this album in particular blends the heavier moments with skeletal, atmospheric passages. It makes for a fantastic closer to this trilogy, only to reveal in its final seconds that it (spoiler) links back to the start of Owsla, repeating the endless cycle.
This band is incredible and one I've wanted to share for a long time, so I'm super happy they're finally making it on here. I highly recommend checking this band out, they present a plethora of sound that makes this body of work an epic, in the truest sense of the word. Enjoy.
1. Intro
2. Pity The Weak
3. A Soul To Bare
4. Lament
5. Last But Not Least
6. The Fall Of Efrafa
1. Beyond The Veil
2. Dominion Theology
3. For El-Ahrairah To Cry
1. Down To Agony - Donde Arderemos
2. Down To Agony - Giran Las Saetas
3. Fall Of Efrafa - No Longer Human
1. Simulacrum
2. Fu Inlé
3. Republic Of Heaven
4. Woundwort
5. The Sky Suspended
6. The Warren Of Snares
Disc 1: Owsla
1. Pity The Weak
2. A Soul To Bear
3. Lament
4. Last But Not Least
5. The Fall Of Efrafa
Disc 2: Elil
6. Beyond The Veil
7. Dominion Theology
8. For El-Ahrairah To Cry
Disc 3: Tharn
9. Dominion Theology
Disc 4: Inlé
10. Simulacrum
11. Fu Inlé
12. Republic Of Heaven
13. The Burial
14. Woundwort
15. The Sky Suspended
16. The Warren Of Snares
1. Pity The Weak (Demo)
2. A Soul To Bear (Demo)
3. Last But Not Least (Demo)
4. The Fall Of Efrafa (Demo)
5. Simulacrum (Live)
6. Dominion Theology (Live)
7. The Burial (Live)
8. Last But Not Least (Live)
9. The Fall Of Efrafa (Live)
10. The Warren of Snares (Live)
Note: First demo and final live performance
Saturday, 12 November 2022
Verse En Coma
Verse En Coma were a five-piece indie/emo/post-rock band from Falls Church, Virginia that were active around 2008. This project included members of City Of Caterpillar, Malady, and pg.99, which is a pretty good reference point in describing this band's sound, especially the former two. The dark, twisting melodies and cleanly sung vocals of Malady mesh with the expansive, effects-laden sound of City Of Caterpillar, with tremolo-picked guitars and whirling reverb. This results in the haunting Rialto, their sole recorded project. Like many of its members other works, this was released by Robotic Empire. Definitely check this out if you're familiar with the aforementioned bands, or if the phrase "clean screamo" sounds remotely appealing. Enjoy.
1. Through Ice Patches And Pine Trees
2. Disappearing Glaciers
3. In A Factory
4. Tiny Speakers
5. DCC Cassette
6. Untitled
Friday, 28 October 2022
Holy Fawn
Holy Fawn are a four-piece post-rock/shoegaze band from Phoenix, Arizona that began in 2015. Since then, they've released two full-lengths and a few EP's/singles. Sonically, they play a dark and expansive take on post-rock that's simultaneously foreboding and ethereal, with shimmering tremolos and hard-hitting riffs. They reach immaculately heavy crescendos with walls of distortion and reverb, while the driving rhythm section give them a real energy and urgency, with soft vocals splashed against the background of the noise. Fans of bands including Slow Crush, Greet Death, Nothing, Deafheaven or Cloakroom should absolutely give this a listen if you haven't already. Enjoy.
1. Dark Stone
2. Arrows
3. Drag Me Into The Woods
4. Yawning
5. Seer
6. Two Waves
7. Take Me With You
8. Vespertine
9. Same Blood
10. Sleep Tongue
1. The Maze (Manchester Orchestra cover)
1. hf:LHPN/seer/REF2.alt
1. Candy
2. Tethered
3. Blood Pact
1. Hexsewn
2. Death Is A Relief
3. Lift Your Head
4. Empty Vials
5. Amaranthine
6. Dimensional Bleed
7. Sightless
8. Void Of Light
9. True Loss
10. Blood Memory
Friday, 26 August 2022
Radura
Radura are a four-piece screamo/post-hardcore band from Milan, Italy that began in 2016. Since then, they've released two EP's, a split, and a full-length. I have been sorely missing out, because this band is absolutely incredible. Effetto Della Veduta D'Insieme makes for a gorgeous and cathartic listen, with the band crafting some of the most serene and ethereal music while still falling under the screamo umbrella. They take heavy influence from post-rock bands such as Explosions In The Sky, with the reverb and delay dialed up and the songs building into huge crescendos. They maintain a sense of energy with some pounding drums alongside vocals that are screamed, sung and spoken to convey a devastated longing, even without being able to understand a single word. Its nine tracks all offer something new, with its openers even incorporating a dreamy acoustic sound. Fans of bands including Daïtro, La Quiete, Raein, Envy, Suis La Lune, Pianos Become The Teeth, and Shizune would be remiss to not check this out. Enjoy.
1. Inerzia
2. Distanze
3. Ritorno
4. Trasfigurazione
1. Pietre di Carta
2. Acqualuna
3. Cadere
4. Rievocazioni
5. Uomini Faro
6. Coda
1. flowers&shelters - Volubile
2. flowers&shelters - Lividi
3. Radura - Quando Urlai Amore Nel Cuore Del Mondo
4. Radura - L'Anno Delle Rondini
1. La Luce Che Copre Gli Angoli
2. Se Questa È La Nostra Festa
3. Monumento
4. Rintocchi
5. Parigi
6. Tutto Il Tempo Che Ho Passato A Non Vedere
7. Riflessi
8. Araucaria
9. Costellazione||Pareidolia
Saturday, 6 August 2022
caroline
caroline are an eight-piece post-rock band from London, England that began in 2017. This released their self-titled debut early this year on Rough Trade Records. This album was a long-time coming, with most songs from it having already been released in some capacity. With years of progression and evolution under each track's belt, the band finally presents them fully formed, working within the spaces of folk, midwest emo, post-rock and interpolated field recordings to construct something gorgeously layered and unique. Amidst reverberated guitars, percussion, strings, and ghostly vocals, the band has managed to strip each song back to its most minimal, actually making them more impactful in the process, feeling melancholic without brooding. Highly recommended, enjoy.
1. Dark blue
2. BRJ
1. Skydiving onto the library roof
2. Everything for everyone
1. Dark blue
2. Good morning (red)
3. desperately
4. IWR
5. messen #7
6. Engine (eavesdropping)
7. hurtle
8. Skydiving onto the library roof
9. zilch
10. Natural Death
1. Total euphoria
2. Song two
3. Tell me I never knew that (feat. Caroline Polachek)
4. When I get home
5. U R UR ONLY ACHING
6. Coldplay cover
7. Two riders down
8. Beautiful ending
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