HOLM
Track: HOLM unfold the post-rock glimmer of ‘In Gardens’ from their Zurich bunker
ZURICH’S fine post-rockers HOLM have taken an unusual, calendrical approach to their forthcoming album, In Gardens; they’ve been revealing it at the steady rate of a track a month over the past year, with that project reaching completion with a final track in mid-January. Which means, of course, that we’re but one track away from …
Track: Swiss post-rock trio HOLM bring the shimmer and the dapple to ‘Flickering Leaves’: a second, impressionistic step towards their 2022 album
WITH a months-long concept of dropping one single track every month on the pilgrimage towards their 2022 album, Swiss post-rock trio HOLM have followed up the cinematic and metronomic wash of May’s “Our Days And Years” with a second station of the cross for you to sonically supplicate before, “Flickering Leaves”, which we’ve got right …
See: Holm – ‘Our Days And Years’: Zurich post-rockers set out on a track-a-month journey to their new album
A CLICKY, metronomic bass is pillowed by distant sound wash and drone, tick-tocking with cinematic suspense; and a guitar twangs a mournful riff with grandeur. Chill synths add to the palette, as winds of sound holler and skitter past your hearing. Imagine Labradford at very blustery altitude, the parched placidity replaced by a need to …