Displaying items by tag: Post Rock
Sunday, 13 May 2012 06:54
Reverend big O - When There Is Only Light To Believe In/Hope For
GENRE: Rock, Indie, Post-rock, Slowcore
Label: 23 Seconds
Release date: 2012
Total running time: 00:60:00
Often described as "Sweden´s slowest band", this time Reverend Big O from Malmö explore the album formula rather than the pace. The album is put together as one long single breath and the idea that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The music is rooted in 90´s shoegaze sounds like Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine etc. as well as post-rockers like Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Explosions In The Sky.
The main contributors on this album are Nicklas Nilsson and Jörgen Dahlqvist. Nicklas is also a member of The Bell, a band with several releases in Europe and the U.S. Their music have attracted considerable attention and several of their songs have been heard in American TV-series like The Vampire Diaries, Jersey Shore etc. Jörgen Dahlqvist is artistic director for one of Sweden´s leading performing arts collective Teater Weimar, Dean of the theatre academy in Malmö 2009-2012. He was also co-founder of the legendary Swedish record label A West Side Fabrication in the late 80´s.
Label: 23 Seconds
Release date: 2012
Total running time: 00:60:00
Often described as "Sweden´s slowest band", this time Reverend Big O from Malmö explore the album formula rather than the pace. The album is put together as one long single breath and the idea that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The music is rooted in 90´s shoegaze sounds like Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine etc. as well as post-rockers like Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Explosions In The Sky.
The main contributors on this album are Nicklas Nilsson and Jörgen Dahlqvist. Nicklas is also a member of The Bell, a band with several releases in Europe and the U.S. Their music have attracted considerable attention and several of their songs have been heard in American TV-series like The Vampire Diaries, Jersey Shore etc. Jörgen Dahlqvist is artistic director for one of Sweden´s leading performing arts collective Teater Weimar, Dean of the theatre academy in Malmö 2009-2012. He was also co-founder of the legendary Swedish record label A West Side Fabrication in the late 80´s.
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - 03.16 02 - Words Like Clouds 03 - This Street Is Connected (To Other Streets) 04 - Then We Fall 05 - A Rose Is A Rose Is A Rose 06 - Walk Inside 07 - I Feel Such Rage (Toward You) 08 - Love Is A Two Headed Dog 09 - It's Not The End Of The World, It's Not |
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Monday, 30 April 2012 14:19
wecollectskies - Of Clouds
GENRE: Rock, Post Rock, Post Metal, Shoegaze
Label: Lost Children
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:17:42
wecollectskies' new 4 track EP has an ambitious approach to how the entire albums sound was architected. It has been in the works for four months as Josh Elliot's final project on university and aims to suit the modern days listening habits.
And it shows, the mixture of metal 'cohones', shoegazing bliss⦠it exhales an energy that grabs you from the first notes and will continue to surprise by breaking barriers and blending genres within the realm of post-rock and post-metal. And it all sounds spectacular.
Label: Lost Children
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:17:42
wecollectskies' new 4 track EP has an ambitious approach to how the entire albums sound was architected. It has been in the works for four months as Josh Elliot's final project on university and aims to suit the modern days listening habits.
And it shows, the mixture of metal 'cohones', shoegazing bliss⦠it exhales an energy that grabs you from the first notes and will continue to surprise by breaking barriers and blending genres within the realm of post-rock and post-metal. And it all sounds spectacular.
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - Apocalisse Morti 02 - Last Word Of Home 03 - Remote Controlled Skies 04 - Withered Hands |
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Monday, 20 June 2011 12:42
Matt Stevens - Live in Blackpool
GENRE: Rock, Post Rock, Progressive, Guitar
Label: Self
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:39:21
Matt Stevens is a musician and composer from North London. An instrumental artist, he uses an acoustic guitar and a sampler to create multi layered tracks live. This is often called Live Looping. His music is compared with artists as diverse as Radiohead and Robert Fripp. He plays live all over the UK.
He has released 2 albums Echo in 2008 and Ghost in 2010 . Echo was a "word of mouth" success thanks to the support of hundreds of bloggers and podcasters.
And now here is with the fresh "Live in Blackpool".
"It is just me, a guitar and a loop pedal in front of an audience at the Electric Garden Festival. There is a full review of the festival here" Matt Stevens
Label: Self
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:39:21
Matt Stevens is a musician and composer from North London. An instrumental artist, he uses an acoustic guitar and a sampler to create multi layered tracks live. This is often called Live Looping. His music is compared with artists as diverse as Radiohead and Robert Fripp. He plays live all over the UK.
He has released 2 albums Echo in 2008 and Ghost in 2010 . Echo was a "word of mouth" success thanks to the support of hundreds of bloggers and podcasters.
And now here is with the fresh "Live in Blackpool".
"It is just me, a guitar and a loop pedal in front of an audience at the Electric Garden Festival. There is a full review of the festival here" Matt Stevens
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Sunday, 15 May 2011 07:20
Charts and Maps – Dead Horse
GENRE: Jazz, Fusion, Math Rock, Post Rock
Label: Lost Children
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:56:24
"Charts and Maps have always been a difficult band to figure out. I was at both their first and last shows - I saw them develop from a loud, jumbled mess of good ideas wrenched together at angles to one of the most aggressively forward-thinking end electrifying live bands on the Los Angeles underground circuit. Dead Horse, much more than any previous recording, captures the sheer bombast of their live performances. It was recorded at the band's pinnacle, on the eve of their final performance at the tail end of 2009. Clashing personalities and gargantuan creative workloads pulled them in different directions. This is where the Heard of Elephants family tree comes in -- It gets a bit complicated. Khawaja (bass), Melancon (drums), and Allison (sax/vocals) currently play in Woolen. Melancon, Allison and Watford (guitar) are part of Random Patterns, and John Taylor (guitar) is one half of Semiconscious Gloria.
Their music is the convergence of a number of diverse tendencies. They're one part ballsy big band jazz, another shimmery post-rock act with walls of melodic sound, a mathy-but-not-calculator-mathy garage-prog outfit, or an ill-tempered funk band with bad intentions -- all underpinned by an almost reckless sense of imagination, deep, grooving beats and eloquent, nimble lead melodies.
The album opens with the cheekily titled 'Take Me Back To Highland Park (Or I Will Die a Gruesome Death),' inspired after a night out in Hollywood. It is loud and stompy, sax heavy and skipping almost entirely through odd-time signatures while managing to be all up in your face without jamming on the distortion pedal. The epic, sweaty 11-minute opus 'In the Town of Machine,' follows, weaving an ominous melodic narrative inspired by the film Dead Man through a number of dystopian sonic landscapes, most culminating in absolutely searing lead lines by guitarist John Taylor. I'm loathe to use the word 'incendiary' to describe guitar playing, but, I mean it; I honestly believe that the man can start fires with his fingers alone.
The album closes with the band's final song, the title track 'Dead Horse.' I would argue that it is their finest work, one of the few to include prominent vocals (though you won't find a lyric sheet attached anywhere) and is vast in concept but concise in execution. Waves of sound lull you into a sense of comfort before dropping you off, leaving your floating in a futurist pool. Abruptly a mean funk commences. It's all syncopated and raw and signature Charts and Maps before the intensity drops to a pause. Then it builds slowly into what band members have described as 'a descent into hell.' And you can see why. It is as if they knew this was their final communication with the world and they wanted to get it all out. At the crashing end, every member is playing at 10 before the beast collapses, winded and spent.
Whether this is your cup of tea or not, Charts and Maps and this album in particular is an experiment going defiantly against the grain in Los Angeles with equal dashings of aggression and aplomb." - Jasper Crane, P.H.D.
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Label: Lost Children
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:56:24
"Charts and Maps have always been a difficult band to figure out. I was at both their first and last shows - I saw them develop from a loud, jumbled mess of good ideas wrenched together at angles to one of the most aggressively forward-thinking end electrifying live bands on the Los Angeles underground circuit. Dead Horse, much more than any previous recording, captures the sheer bombast of their live performances. It was recorded at the band's pinnacle, on the eve of their final performance at the tail end of 2009. Clashing personalities and gargantuan creative workloads pulled them in different directions. This is where the Heard of Elephants family tree comes in -- It gets a bit complicated. Khawaja (bass), Melancon (drums), and Allison (sax/vocals) currently play in Woolen. Melancon, Allison and Watford (guitar) are part of Random Patterns, and John Taylor (guitar) is one half of Semiconscious Gloria.
Their music is the convergence of a number of diverse tendencies. They're one part ballsy big band jazz, another shimmery post-rock act with walls of melodic sound, a mathy-but-not-calculator-mathy garage-prog outfit, or an ill-tempered funk band with bad intentions -- all underpinned by an almost reckless sense of imagination, deep, grooving beats and eloquent, nimble lead melodies.
The album opens with the cheekily titled 'Take Me Back To Highland Park (Or I Will Die a Gruesome Death),' inspired after a night out in Hollywood. It is loud and stompy, sax heavy and skipping almost entirely through odd-time signatures while managing to be all up in your face without jamming on the distortion pedal. The epic, sweaty 11-minute opus 'In the Town of Machine,' follows, weaving an ominous melodic narrative inspired by the film Dead Man through a number of dystopian sonic landscapes, most culminating in absolutely searing lead lines by guitarist John Taylor. I'm loathe to use the word 'incendiary' to describe guitar playing, but, I mean it; I honestly believe that the man can start fires with his fingers alone.
The album closes with the band's final song, the title track 'Dead Horse.' I would argue that it is their finest work, one of the few to include prominent vocals (though you won't find a lyric sheet attached anywhere) and is vast in concept but concise in execution. Waves of sound lull you into a sense of comfort before dropping you off, leaving your floating in a futurist pool. Abruptly a mean funk commences. It's all syncopated and raw and signature Charts and Maps before the intensity drops to a pause. Then it builds slowly into what band members have described as 'a descent into hell.' And you can see why. It is as if they knew this was their final communication with the world and they wanted to get it all out. At the crashing end, every member is playing at 10 before the beast collapses, winded and spent.
Whether this is your cup of tea or not, Charts and Maps and this album in particular is an experiment going defiantly against the grain in Los Angeles with equal dashings of aggression and aplomb." - Jasper Crane, P.H.D.
Available in FLAC!
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - Take Me Back to Highland Park 02 - In the Town of Machine 03 - Gold Roomer 04 - Now I Must Hit You 05 - Pearl Divers of the Arabian Peninsula 06 - Hypnotiq American Firework 07 - Dead Horse |
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Friday, 13 May 2011 07:58
The Sun Will Rise - An Inter-Netlabel Compilation for Japanese Relief
GENRE: Electronic, Classical, Rock, Ambient, Experimental, Post Rock
Label: Community Audio
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 02:03:20
As everyone is no doubt aware, Japan was hit with a major natural disaster on March 11th. The country's citizens are in dire need of humanitarian aid.
The netlabel scene is based on the ideas of charity, moral action, and global awareness, so it is only fitting that we produce a compilation with those principles in mind to assist those who are in urgent need. It just needed to be organized - and so I put out a call to musicians and netlabels to help.
The response to the project was immense and immediate. Music submissions, offers of help with various aspects of the project, and plenty of encouragement began to pour into my inbox. In fact, there were so many submissions that I had to assemble a team to evaluate them.
Numerous netlabels stepped forward with offers to post the compilation on their own sites. In doing this, we are overcoming the traditional limitations of physical media and its distrubition. There is no label of origin; every participating label is a part of one greater effort.
Talented artists submitted their artwork for every aspect of the project. Every image for this entire project - the logo, the cover art, website backgrounds - was given freely to this effort. Even the name of the project was selected by the community.
I am overjoyed to present this compilation to the world. I hope that this will be an example of what can be done with free music and free art - that we don't have to profit from our work to do good things in this world. No one involved in this project will receive even the smallest amount of monetary compensation for their work here.
This is charity in its truest sense. This is for Japan.
Kevin Stephens
For more information about the project, visit Internet label compilation
Available in FLAC!
Label: Community Audio
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 02:03:20
As everyone is no doubt aware, Japan was hit with a major natural disaster on March 11th. The country's citizens are in dire need of humanitarian aid.
The netlabel scene is based on the ideas of charity, moral action, and global awareness, so it is only fitting that we produce a compilation with those principles in mind to assist those who are in urgent need. It just needed to be organized - and so I put out a call to musicians and netlabels to help.
The response to the project was immense and immediate. Music submissions, offers of help with various aspects of the project, and plenty of encouragement began to pour into my inbox. In fact, there were so many submissions that I had to assemble a team to evaluate them.
Numerous netlabels stepped forward with offers to post the compilation on their own sites. In doing this, we are overcoming the traditional limitations of physical media and its distrubition. There is no label of origin; every participating label is a part of one greater effort.
Talented artists submitted their artwork for every aspect of the project. Every image for this entire project - the logo, the cover art, website backgrounds - was given freely to this effort. Even the name of the project was selected by the community.
I am overjoyed to present this compilation to the world. I hope that this will be an example of what can be done with free music and free art - that we don't have to profit from our work to do good things in this world. No one involved in this project will receive even the smallest amount of monetary compensation for their work here.
This is charity in its truest sense. This is for Japan.
Kevin Stephens
For more information about the project, visit Internet label compilation
Available in FLAC!
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Friday, 01 April 2011 15:10
The Spherical Minds - Transpheres
GENRE: Rock, Post Rock, Shoegaze
Label: Tripostal
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:44:38
Known for their dream-like music with dub reminiscences and classical melodies, The Spherical Minds are the missing link between post-rock, progressive and psyche music. Thus it wasn't a surprise when Danny Cavanagh (from Anathema) did the band the honor of singing on the second album "Fern", released on our physical label Carte Postale Records in 2005.
Today with "Transpheres", the French band share 45 minutes of mostly instrumental music but we are sure you will not pass near the charm of the female voice on "Kokkola Transition" without emotions. Also it is the first time we won't hear the Marie Mertzweiller's wonderful cello but the Mathieu Maestracci's piano melodies are prominently alongside ethereal guitar atmospheres and it works !
Label: Tripostal
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:44:38
Known for their dream-like music with dub reminiscences and classical melodies, The Spherical Minds are the missing link between post-rock, progressive and psyche music. Thus it wasn't a surprise when Danny Cavanagh (from Anathema) did the band the honor of singing on the second album "Fern", released on our physical label Carte Postale Records in 2005.
Today with "Transpheres", the French band share 45 minutes of mostly instrumental music but we are sure you will not pass near the charm of the female voice on "Kokkola Transition" without emotions. Also it is the first time we won't hear the Marie Mertzweiller's wonderful cello but the Mathieu Maestracci's piano melodies are prominently alongside ethereal guitar atmospheres and it works !
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - Fautless Coming Time 02 - CoDA Music 03 - Raising The City 04 - Kokkola Transition 05 - Life (vest) Under Your Seat |
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Tuesday, 22 March 2011 08:56
Matt Stevens - Ghost
GENRE: Rock, Acoustic, Post Rock, Instrumental, Progressive Rock
Label: Self
Release date: 2010
Total running time: 00:42:40
Matt Stevens is a musician and composer from North London. An instrumental artist, he uses an acoustic guitar and a sampler to create multi layered tracks live. This is often called Live Looping. His music is compared with artists as diverse as Radiohead and Robert Fripp. He plays live all over the UK.
He has released 2 albums Echo in 2008 and Ghost in 2010 . Echo was a "word of mouth" success thanks to the support of hundreds of bloggers and podcasters.
He has composed for short films(including the award winning Daddys Little Helper) and his live work is often compared to watching a one man guitar orchestra or wall of sound. He also plays guitar in the band The Fierce And The Dead.
He set up the site Cafe Noodle that allows bands to perform from their homes to an online community and acts as a consultant in Social Media for various industries.
Label: Self
Release date: 2010
Total running time: 00:42:40
Matt Stevens is a musician and composer from North London. An instrumental artist, he uses an acoustic guitar and a sampler to create multi layered tracks live. This is often called Live Looping. His music is compared with artists as diverse as Radiohead and Robert Fripp. He plays live all over the UK.
He has released 2 albums Echo in 2008 and Ghost in 2010 . Echo was a "word of mouth" success thanks to the support of hundreds of bloggers and podcasters.
He has composed for short films(including the award winning Daddys Little Helper) and his live work is often compared to watching a one man guitar orchestra or wall of sound. He also plays guitar in the band The Fierce And The Dead.
He set up the site Cafe Noodle that allows bands to perform from their homes to an online community and acts as a consultant in Social Media for various industries.
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Friday, 18 March 2011 05:11
Beyond the Dune Sea - Beyond the Dune Sea
GENRE: Rock, Post Rock, Experimental, Shoegaze, Electronic, Ambient
Label: Abridged Pause
Release date: 2010
Total running time: 00:27:59
Although this site is about music released under Creative Commons, I decided to post - occasionally - music that is copyrighted. With the consent of the label, of course. The music is freely distributed for download on the Labels site and I also have their assent.
There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. This is Beyond the Dune Sea.
Beyond the Dune Sea’s debut full length is a brilliant album. And it was done in such a “post-musical” style as well. A series of live jams were recorded and the whole thing was put together in post-production style by Adam Kennedy. The entire album is flawless and could be your next album on repeat once you get started. This is not to be passed by in 2010.
Label: Abridged Pause
Release date: 2010
Total running time: 00:27:59
Although this site is about music released under Creative Commons, I decided to post - occasionally - music that is copyrighted. With the consent of the label, of course. The music is freely distributed for download on the Labels site and I also have their assent.
There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. This is Beyond the Dune Sea.
Beyond the Dune Sea’s debut full length is a brilliant album. And it was done in such a “post-musical” style as well. A series of live jams were recorded and the whole thing was put together in post-production style by Adam Kennedy. The entire album is flawless and could be your next album on repeat once you get started. This is not to be passed by in 2010.
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - Welcome to the Dunes 02 - The Dune Sea 03 - The Red Tide 04 - Time is of the Essence 05 - Save Game 06 - Embryo 07 - Reflection in the Sea 08 - Final Solution 09 - Welcome to the Dunes (Reprise) 10 - Return from the Sea |
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Wednesday, 16 March 2011 21:36
Echoes from Jupiter - Europa
GENRE: Rock, Post Rock, Experimental, Shoegaze
Label: Self
Release date: 2010
Total running time: 00:48:42
Echoes From Jupiter mixes post-rock melodies and textures with grungier attacks and some elements of shoegaze music. Blending all these styles together helps create their own unique sound while still paying some kind of tribute to their main inspirations (The Smashing Pumpkins, The Cure, Mogwai, Godspeed You! Black Emperor to name a few).
Formed in 2005 in Quebec City, the band has since seen a lot of changes in its lineup, stabilizing in 2009, the same year they released their first EP Io. After playing a few shows opening for local bands and showcasing their latest effort, they started writing new material for a LP called Europa which was released on September 27th 2010. Their newest songs feature a more elaborated and better crafted sound, closer to their post-rock influences but still very much alternative.
Label: Self
Release date: 2010
Total running time: 00:48:42
Echoes From Jupiter mixes post-rock melodies and textures with grungier attacks and some elements of shoegaze music. Blending all these styles together helps create their own unique sound while still paying some kind of tribute to their main inspirations (The Smashing Pumpkins, The Cure, Mogwai, Godspeed You! Black Emperor to name a few).
Formed in 2005 in Quebec City, the band has since seen a lot of changes in its lineup, stabilizing in 2009, the same year they released their first EP Io. After playing a few shows opening for local bands and showcasing their latest effort, they started writing new material for a LP called Europa which was released on September 27th 2010. Their newest songs feature a more elaborated and better crafted sound, closer to their post-rock influences but still very much alternative.
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Wednesday, 02 March 2011 06:14
From The Sky - Like Crystal in a World of Glass
GENRE: Rock, Post-Rock, Instrumental
Label: Lost Children
Release date: 2009
Total running time: 00:41:28
From The Sky's second release, mini-album 'Like Crystal in a World of Glass', was originally released in 2006 by Sound Devastation records and was well received for the young band. We now re-release 'Like Crystal...' on Lost Children in memory of the now defunct band as an accompaniment for their third release, EP 'A Warm Place With No Memory', which is also on Lost Children. A more upbeat and energetic instrumental rock release than many post-rock releases in 2006, it laid the groundwork for From The Sky's manic and often chaotic shows which commonly ended with the live favourite 'Someone To Remember' and very little of the stage left. This version of 'Like Crystal...' also contains the previously unreleased version of 'Needle Happy Paediatricians' as a bonus track
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - Electric Snow 02 - When The Sun Sets The Clouds On Fire 03 - Position Of The Stars 04 - There Are Ghosts In The Glass 05 - Someone To Remember 06 - Needle Happy Paediatricians |
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