post rock
Live Review + Photo Gallery: follow at Altar Bar, Hobart 16.11.2024
It was an evening of firsts, as Hobart’s post-rock supergroup, follow, took to the live stage for the very first time and played songs from their debut LP, Old Haunts (album review by Senior Editor, Arun Kendall, here), which was released back in May 2023. Formed by past and present members of Luca Brasi, Silver …
Album Review: Godspeed You! Black Emperor – “No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead” : intense, probing and cathartic contemporary rock.
Let’s start with some facts. Godspeed You! Black Emperor are a seminal alt rock, orchestral collective formed 1994 in Montreal. People who write about contemporary music see their early noughties trilogy (F♯ A♯ ∞, Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven and Yanqui U.X.O.) as definitive long form, instrumental statements. If you are reading …
Track/Video : Post-metal ground-breakers BIG|BRAVE preview the poetic ‘canon: in canon’ from new album ‘A Chaos Of Flowers’
So the release of the Montreal post metal unit BIG|BRAVE’s eighth album ‘A Chaos Of Flowers’ is arcing steadily towards a conclusion (out 19th April via Thrill Jockey Records). This is a band whose momentum is grounded in consideration and integrity, no quick wins, no sell-outs, who’ve evolved their own unique approach to slow core, …
Album Review: Nino Gvilia – ‘Nicole’ EP : Delicate songs for desperate times.
You may have noticed a couple of quirky tunes drifting out from the home of Hive Mind Records at the back end of ’23. Delivered by ‘new’ singer songwriter Nino Gvilia, the tracks drifted illusively between the tropes of bedroom pop, eastern European folk and lo-fi experimentalism but with a real sense of purpose. These …
Album Review : Ben Sloan – Muted Colors Live : re-igniting tracks from his debut with a fresh collective energy.
Percussionist and producer Ben Sloan’s decade plus as collaborator and contributor, drumming with the likes of Moses Sumney, Beth Orton, WHY? and The National, testifies that here we have a musician with an exceptional range, pedigree and rhythmic sixth sense. Still that’s not the whole picture. March ’23 saw him step out confidently from the …
Track: Taking post-rock further – New Age Doom & Tuvaband preview new album ‘There Is No End’ with the climactic title track.
Now here’s some news from the consistently beneficial We Are Busy Bodies to lighten up the post summer gloom. The Toronto label will be releasing the new album ‘There Is No End’ from experimental rock collective New Age Doom on 27th October. Centring around the core partnership of drummer Eric J. Breitenbach and guitarist Greg …
Special Delivery From Oz – Melbourne Band’s Debut LP Gets UK Release
Described by Rolling Stone magazine as the best Australian album of 2022, Forever Giving Handshakes by Melbourne’s upcoming garage-punks, Delivery, gets its well deserved UK release on May 19th, on Anti-Fade/ Spoilsport / Feel It Records. Ahead of the release the band have a single out, Poor To Middling Moneymaking, which mixes fast-paced, spiky, angular …
News: Stepping ahead of the curve once more – Supersonic Festival returns for 2023
It’s staggering to think that Birmingham’s Supersonic Festival returns this year for its 20th inspirational iteration. No wonder it’s been called ‘The Mother of British underground festivals’. Here is an event of significance dedicated to championing those sonic explorers who occupy the outer fringes of noise, rock and experimentation. Expertly curated, proudly inclusive and defiantly …
Premiere: Melbourne trio Badinage sweep through the air with a delicious frisson in instrumental single ‘Surfin” released ahead of EP ‘Meander’ and launch date.
We are frozen with joy at being able to bring you an exclusive appraisal of the new single from post rock instrumental ensemble Badinage, out of the cultural petri dish that is Melbourne. ‘Surfin” is a sweeping expansive instrumental that marries the heavy yet delicate thrum of a cello with arpeggiated guitars to create an …
Album Review: Black Ox Orkestar – Everything Returns : Formidable and forthright – the seminal avant folk ensemble reunite
It’s been over fifteen years since Black Ox Orkestar released their touchstone albums Ver Tantz (2004) and Nisht Azoy (2006), two works that navigated the dark folk/ post rock intersection with a genuine sense of purpose and distinct sonic foundation. Emerging from the Montreal indie scene the four members, Thierry Amar (upright bass), Scott Gilmore …