post-rock
Meet: I Like Trains’ David Martin on new material, how they work, lockdown and more
It’s been eight years since we last heard from I Like Trains, or at least that’s when their last album dropped. Maybe best remembered for their first two records – 2006’s Progress • Reform and Elergies to Lessons Learnt from a year later, they produced epic post/indie-rock anthems of a dark and emotive nature that …
Track: A.A. Williams – All I Asked For (Was To End It All) plus debut album news
London based singer/songwriter A.A Williams has announced the release of her debut album ‘Forever Blue’ on July 3rd via Bella Union. To mark the occasion Williams has shared a haunting animated video for immersive lead track ‘All I Asked For (Was To End It All)’ created by Craig Murray. Of the video Williams says: “I’m so …
Album Review: Sleepersound – Medias Rae
Milwaukee, Wisconsin quartet Sleepersoiund have recently released their latest long player ‘Medias Res’ on the Shore Dive Records imprint, the bands first new music since their 2016 Pilots / Passengers / Portals EP, and sees them further hone their experimental shoegaze post-rock This band have a hypnotic ambience about them which draws on clean sounding …
Premiere: See new video for ‘Azure’ from Electric Litany
Ahead of the release of London based quartet Electric Litany’s third (and most ambitious to date) album ‘Under A Common Sky’, we are delighted to premiere the video for the album’s lead track ‘Azure’. Sitting somewhere between the emotional textures of Mogwai and Sigur Ros, it’s driven from this sweeping, stately piano lines, as underneath …
See: The Shaking Sensations reveal new video for ‘Sightings’
How Are We To Fight The Blight? is the new album from Copenhagan based Post-Rockers The Shaking Sensations, out on October 4th on Pelagic Records. From it they’ve released a new video for the single ‘Sighting’, a follow up to their towering first single, Tremendous Efforts, and is a Mogwai-esque exploration of lush yet muscular, dreamy …
EP Review: [B O L T], Lavas Magmas – Untitled
German drone metal duo [B O L T] have joined forces with Floridian industrial noise project Lavas Magmas on this untitled three-track collaborative split EP of ambient post-rock. [B O L T] perform the first track, ‘1 2’, which is basically a short series of ambient synth notes stretched out for over ten minutes with …
News: Explosions in the sky reissue first, fourth albums, announce UK/Ireland tour
Texan post-rockers Explosions in the Sky have reissued their first and fourth albums on vinyl and announced plans to tour the UK and Ireland next year. The band have released debut album ‘How Strange, Innocence’ and ‘lost’ fourth album ‘The Rescue’ on vinyl. ‘The Rescue’ was previously only available as a download and CD mail …
Album Review : worriedaboutsatan’s ‘Shift’
U.K.-based worriedaboutsatan are all about digging into the unknown and making something out of that darkness. There are elements of techno, dance, ambient, and heavy atmosphere in their work, with all of their musical voodoo coming to ahead on 2016s Blank Tape, their 3rd full-length. From that breakthrough record, the Yorkshire duo headed into the studio …
Album Review : Mythic Sunship’s ‘Upheaval’
Mythic Sunship are a band that waste no time with subtleties. There’s no tip-toeing around whether things are gonna get loud and intense, as you know right as the first song begins to play on any of their albums that things are gonna get pretty damn loud. And pretty damn intense. But that’s not to …
INTERVIEW: One Day After School / Dead Sea Poems soundtrack
On September 30th West Yorkshire Post-Rock influenced band One Day, After School will perform their specially commissioned soundtrack to poet Simon Armitage’s The Dead Sea Poems. We caught up with songwriter Dean Freeman in the midst of a tough schedule of writing and rehearsing to ask how, and why. We see lots of bands writing …