Tag Reissue
Treebeard are from the same progressive post-rock stable as sleepmakewaves, We Lost the Sea and other similar Australian artists. This album, which is the band’s debut, was released two years ago and now being re-released. Mystical sounds accompany the opening… Continue Reading →
Having turned doom on its head and forged the genre into strange new paths with demo collection Esoteric Emotions: The Death Of Ignorance in 1993. It was time for Birmingham based band Esoteric to release their debut album the following… Continue Reading →
Tempted to say that Forgotten World is an apt title here as this album is actually from 2007 and was remastered last year and the band is defunct. Now the question this always brings to my mind is…why re-release it?… Continue Reading →
Hammerheart have done a great job re-issuing the early back catalogue of Danish technical Thrash metal band Invocator. The band’s debut Excursion Demise was originally released in 1991. I always found this release to be at the tipping point of… Continue Reading →
Music of an experimental shade has a special appeal, because it has an inherent possibility of going just about anywhere, of taking any possible road. I like the way experimental music takes my mind to all sorts of places, the… Continue Reading →
“Crikey Ails! What we putting in the beer down the surf club. It’s all coming up post rock down under,” is exactly what Ray Meagher’s character Alf would have said if he was sent as many post rock albums by Birds Robe as I am. Well this time… 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 →
Trouble is a band that I have a very long relationship with, well over thirty-five years and counting (I have tickets to their 2022 Glasgow show pinned to a board in my living room, even though I don’t even know… Continue Reading →
Anybody up for some ‘circus-metal-prog-folk-rock’? Well, I’m not sure we were and the other writers have gone out of their way to avoid this one like thee plague, but that is what we have got and it comes down to… 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 →
Dumbsaint is a band whose music is accompanied by film. Having just this album to listen to I didn’t get the benefit of that. But you can get five videos as a download with this hour-long instrumental post rock work…. Continue Reading →
As I’ve typed for the benefit of visitors to this site before, if you are only interested in the most “brootal” of screamed metal vomited into a microphone by somebody with a face painted like a badger, click away right… Continue Reading →