Tag Instrumental
It’s been four years since I last reviewed an album by Germanic psychedelic trio The Spacelords, the esteemed editor having given judgement on their 2020 release (see Ave Noctum passim), so it will be interesting to discover how they have… Continue Reading →
In times when shows are still few and far between, a live album is a welcome change. I enjoyed listening to the album at hand, even though the music belongs to a genre I rarely get excited about nowadays. But… Continue Reading →
Coming from the same camp as sleepmakeswaves and We Lost the Sea, cinematically-inclined instrumental post-rock band clayhands – it’s all in the lower case – now enter the scene. I liked the symphonic start. With a patient build up, there… Continue Reading →
The folks at Birds Robe have been busy re-issuing their catalogue, meaning that gorgeous looking CD’s filled with big post rock sounds have been dropping through my letterbox. With each dull thud on the door mat comes another collection of songs by a band… Continue Reading →
That is a lot of title in brackets eh especially for a band of few words. Arctic Sea Survivors are a quartet of Austrian instrumentalists named Survivor I through IV and these six tracks constitute their 2nd full length album, The Longest Dawn is… Continue Reading →
It is time to step into our musical Tardis and arrive pitched up in Russia in the 17th Century when the Orthodox Church saw a divide between the traditionalists resisting changes and progress believing them to be the work of… Continue Reading →
Drott take us into the strange underworld of Orcus with this album. The band includes members from Enslaved and Ulver, and with backgrounds as diverse as metal, jazz and classical music, dive into “sonic, experimental landscapes” with this instrumental progressive… Continue Reading →
The Glasgow coma scale is a medical assessment tool, employed to gauge a person’s level of consciousness after a brain injury. It’s also the name of a post-rock band from Frankfurt, Germany. Why the band chose to name themselves after… Continue Reading →
Twenty two years. Eleven studio albums. These Japanese loons have had a long and hopefully lucrative career. I have dipped in and out of their eclectic sounds over the years – usually as part of playlists made by mates who were… Continue Reading →
Expansive. Immersive and indeed panoramic. If we are doing nutshell descriptions then that would be it. Dumbsaint are an instrumental four piece from Sydney who create big, big soundscapes of what is known as post rock. Now “Panoram….” is not a new release. It was written… Continue Reading →
This was a fairly last-minute gig, that my shooter suggested we attend, plus it was free entry as part of the Sheffield Music Trails event that was taking place at various venues across the city. Added to that this was… Continue Reading →
Some twenty years into their existence French heavyweights Year of No Light are having a damn busy summer. A new album in the shape of Consolamentum and a career spanning box set of their previous 5 full-lengthers – quite an achievement after what… Continue Reading →