post-rock
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 …
Album Review: Grails – ‘Chalice Hymnal’
Grails, hail from Portland, Oregon. A seaport state nestled under Washington and characterised by its diverse landscape of forests, mountains, farms and beaches. That Pacific Northwest essence runs through the centre of the Grails sound. A sound that expounds on the spectral spaghetti Western side of their oeuvre, marked by tasteful excursions into passages of …
Track: Grails Release New Single “Deep Snow II” on Temporary Residence Ltd.
Grails have just released their third single, ‘Deep Snow II’, from forthcoming album ‘Chalice Hymnal’. You can hear the previously released singles for ‘Pelham’ here and album title track ‘Chalice Hymnal’ here. ‘Deep Snow II’ continues in the vain of the previously released singles and expands on the themes at the heart of the Grails …
Album Review: analogue creatures living on an island – Immersion
The ambient project of Wire’s Colin Newman (along with his partner Malka Spigel from Minimal Compact) has been in existence since 1994, and after a hiatus of seventeen years, Immersion is back. Pre-album release track ‘Fireflys’ is a beautiful, hypnotic vortex of arpeggios and repetitive synth loops, rising and falling and washing over the listener. …
See: Maiians release video for Parasaur
We’ve long been fans of Oxford instrumental five piece Maiians, so we’re delighted they’re about to furnish us (and the rest of the world) with an debut, self-titled album. Mixing up post-rock and electronica, and making it work in a live setting (and with two drummers…) is what the band set out to do, and …
Album Review: Stems – Severance
After releasing two albums post-rock outfit Stems are still in the process of honing their craft but with their latest release entitled Severance the band have certainly created something very impressive. At just three tracks Severance features a plethora of musical ideas all focusing around the fundamental post rock sound. Citing influences from bands such as God …
Album Review: Mogwai – Atomic
I have to admit, it took me a while to find my way to Mogwai. Even after seeing them in 2004 during an ear-shattering assault that left a good friend of mine and I stunned and shell shocked at the Curiosa Festival I still just could never bring myself to dig deeper into these Scottish …
Album Review: Swans – The Glowing Man
SWANS have one of the most intriguing discographies in music and with front man Michael Gira recently announcing that The Glowing Man would be the last for this incarnation of the band, it makes it a pivotal part of the history. So after the seminal To Be Kind, does The Glowing Man act as a …
Meet: Luke Howard, and listen to his track ‘The Ends’
Sometimes you hear something that makes you stop. That sweeps over you with its emotion. Like you know those songs that used to be on Grey’s Anatomy when something went wrong, (cue held camera shots and arty cutaways), well even more emotional than that. Like, real. Well, Australian composer and musician Luke Howard did that …
Album Review: Explosions in the Sky – The Wilderness
Listening to Explosions in the Sky for me has always been like that lump in your throat moment in a great film. The tragic losses, the triumphant successes, and the moment when you realize everything is going to be all right despite all the downs you’ve gone through to get there. They soundtrack both figuratively …