Tag: post-rock

Sairen – Vestiges

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Track List

1. Sacrificiel
2. Inévitable
3. Insecte
4. Le Négatif Des Apparences
5. V’empire
6. Interlude
7. Radicalité Des Temps Derniers

Sairen

Vestiges

Sairen’s 4th album, “Vestiges” contains the pieces he composed between 2019 – 2020. This is a more post-metal album with dark atmospheric sound which also proudly features slow tempos and resounding endings.

Vestiges is a guitar dominant album. The guitars are sometimes heavy and tormented and sometimes more playful with the use of reverbs and delays. The pieces follow each other vehemently while the artist searches meaning among the themes. Sairen says this album is more about being at the opposition and searching for truth.

Sairen composes and delivers his music from Brittany, France. His music is sometimes described as “apocalyptic instrumental pieces” by his listeners. He loves baroque and romantic music as well as dark metal or post-rock, and he sometimes defines his music as a link between these seemingly opposite worlds.

Besides musical influences from the post-metal / post-rock bands such as Mono and Will Haven, this album is inspired by the growing struggle between “being and having” and the “Orwellian era in which we are living in now” as Sairen describes.

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Release Date:  November 06, 2020
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Another chance to adore Arms Of Tripoli: One Way Plastic

Californian post-rockers Arms Of Tripoli come with a new EP: One Way Plastic. They have already got reviews! Lets have a look at them: Idioteq says: “Using some standard rock fare such as guitar, bass and drums along with the addition of less-typical rock instrumentation, such as Vibraphone, Rhodes and Omni-chord, AOT has been able […]

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Arms Of Tripoli – One Way Plastic

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1. Edwards Edward
2. Pseudo Recreations
3. She’s Onion
4. Nude Hawaii
5. Lander

Arms Of Tripoli

One Way Plastic

Started on a dare, Arms of Tripoli is Southern California’s best kept sonic secret. In 1987 all four member of Arms of Tripoli were working at the same frozen yogurt stand in Hawthorne, CA. Manager Allen Porter (guitar, sitar) told his 3 night shift workers Michael Bouvet (bass, hookah), George Tseng (drums, statistics) and K.C. Maloney (guitar, mood, sexuality) that if they didn’t sell 17 pints of Very Berry Iced Routine frozen yogurt by 12 midnight they’d have to start a band with him called Arms of Lisa Loeb. Of course, such a task is impossible (even in Hawthorne, CA LOL!). After spending the next 30 years learning their instruments they finally started working on “One Way Plastic”.

Originally a collection of dad rock, garage band covers of Alice Cooper, Boston and Lynyrd Skynyrd, over the next 3 years through creative mixing and digital editing “One Way Plastic” became the great post-rock work it is today. Nary a remnant of those original covers remain. When they were set to release the EP they realized that there was already someone named Lisa Loeb who had a hit in the 90’s with the coffeehouse rock song “Stay (I Missed You)”. Visibly distraught, they resigned to calling the band Arms of Tripoli. That’s when they were met with more bad news. Apparently there was already a post rock band in Los Angeles called Arms of Tripoli that had been releasing high quality music since the early 2010’s and they were notoriously litigious. All seemed lost and they considered changing their name to Fake, Fanciful, Beautiful: The Hunger Remainz. But as fate would have it, George Tseng ended up winning $43,000 on a slot machine in Laughlin, NV. Using these funds they came to an agreement to buy the name Arms of Tripoli from the existing band (which included ownership of their 3 previous releases “All The Fallen Embers”, “Dreaming In Tongues” and “Daughters”). They even had a little bit of money left over which they used to fund a group trip to Raging Waters water park in San Dimas, CA!!

Nowadays you can catch Arms of Tripoli playing live every weekend to throngs of innocent bystanders at Universal City Walk in Universal City, CA. It has ample parking and is within walking distance to a metro stop.

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Release Date:  July 24, 2020
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Deer Park Ranger release Adaptation

With his third full-length album “Adaptation”, Deer Park Ranger continues to evolve his brand of post-rock and deliver his most mature and sophisticated record to date. This album showcases his cinematic songwriting, in which each song seems to tell a story with the listener clinging to each twist and turn off the plot. Humphrey takes […]

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Deer Park Ranger – Adaptation

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Track List

1. Quick Study
2. Shapeshifter
3. Monument
4. Counterpart
5. Silver
6. Home

Deer Park Ranger

Adaptation

With his third full-length album “Adaptation”, Deer Park Ranger continues to evolve his brand of post-rock and deliver his most mature and sophisticated record to date. This album showcases his cinematic songwriting, in which each song seems to tell a story with the listener clinging to each twist and turn of the plot. Humphrey takes a more patient approach on this release, which gives his songs the space and time to build and cascade into their inevitable chaotic crescendos, and come down to their serene afterglows. Each tense moment seems to have a blissfully calm counterpart giving the listener a gratifying and balanced experience. His use of layers creates dense textures that allow you to uncover more with each listen and will make you want to come back again and again.

“Quick Study” sets the tone of the record and kicks things off on an intense note. Distorted guitars and layered synths swell over a driving drumbeat soaked in reverb. The progression builds to an almost orchestral high before dissolving away.

On “Shapeshifter”, perhaps the most cinematic track of the record, a minimalist lead riff and a tight groove beat are the constant backbone while delayed guitars sweep through ascending scales that gradually build to a glorious crescendo. For the second movement, beautiful arpeggiated piano work is paired with wailing guitars that soar to yet another high note. After nearly 6 minutes of intensity, the listener gets to unwind with an ambient outro that brings everything back to earth.

“Monument” and “Counterpart” both have two movement structures that allow the first half to set up their aggressive finishes. “Silver” uses repetition and menacing bassline to bring the listener into an uneasy place, until beautiful delayed guitars bring a sense of resolve.

Finally, the album closes out with “Home”, a nine-and-a-half minute winding journey that is both touching and powerful, and has a nostalgic and reflective tone. From start to finish, this album takes you on a journey that you won’t forget.

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Release Date:  March 19, 2020
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SleepingToys release Breath

“Breath” is the debut work of the post-rock band Sleeping Toys. In the five tracks’ what you hear is a beautiful combination of guitar and piano music. The tracks are interconnected and complement each other perfectly. If you are looking for music to appease, want to find a new modern lullaby for your children, or […]

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Artificial Waves release ‘The Complexity of Simple’

Post-rock band, Artificial Waves is experimenting with contemporary instrumental music in various genres from ambient to metal since the band was established in 2012. The Complexity of Simple is the fourth full-length Artificial Waves studio album. Band members say “One of the difficult things in many areas of human activity from daily affairs to science […]

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Maïak’s sophomore album: “a lie we don’t believe anymore”

maïak delivers a dark and powerful post-rock that evolves between tenuous melancholy and chaotic blast. They all share a penchant for long, slowly fluctuating and ascending compositions and a fondness for saturated tube amps when it comes to make a point. Their music somehow always manages to catch the listener by surprise and unleash her […]

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SleepingToys – Breath

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1. These Streets Become Marble
2. Cloud
3. Sonata Dec
4. One Billion Disappointments
5. Fade Out

SleepingToys

Breath

SleepingToys is an instrumental rock & post-rock project from making music since 2016. The project was started by Ilya Medelyaev as a solo project and later other musicians joined.

It was time to put out an EP. The result was the ‘Breath’ EP which was recorded at famous recording studio “Dobrolet”. Ilya was also a composer, guitarist and producer of the recorded material. Also, professional musicians from different cities of Russia and Ukraine were involved in the recording process.

“Breath” is the debut work of the post-rock band Sleeping Toys. In the five tracks’ what you hear is a beautiful combination of guitar and piano music. The tracks are interconnected and complement each other perfectly. If you are looking for music to appease, want to find a new modern lullaby for your children, or just want to move away from the constant aggression in the world – please give your ears to this EP.

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Release Date:  December 04, 2019
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maïak – a lie we don’t believe anymore

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1. hochrobotisiert fast keine leute

2. the gasoline and the match on a glad beautiful spring day

3. now watch this drive

4. the light footprint of a predator hellfire

5. анушка (01.06.1948-16.06.1987)

Maïak

A Lie We Don’t Believe Anymore

maïak delivers a dark and powerful post-rock that evolves between tenuous melancholy and chaotic blast. They all share a penchant for long, slowly fluctuating and ascending compositions and a fondness for saturated tube amps when it comes to make a point. Their music somehow always manages to catch the listener by surprise and unleash her or his emotions, be it sorrow or pure furor.

maïak releases their new album “a lie we don’t believe anymore”. It took the band quite some time to come up with a sequel to the noticed debut album “a pleasant way to die”.

Most of the music maïak creates is the result of improvisations that just started and evolved around a simple original idea; like a melody, a riff, a line, or even a noise. For each of the tracks they have composed for this new opus, they have struggled for months, finding the right transition, cutting through whole segments, changing the order of elements or just chasing the climax they had reached without being then able to remember how they got there. The result is astonishing. Everything you would expect from maïak is there: eerie atmospheres, tenuous laments, never-ending seething tensions, overwhelming guitar screams apotheosis, storming chaos.

From its solemn entry to its nostalgic resolution, despair haunts every movement, each of the five tracks resolutely differs from the others, like a cavern differs from a sea. Yet somehow each of them echoes in the others, fully complementarily. Like for the previous piece, “a lie we don’t believe anymore” has been recorded and mixed by Serge Morattel @ recstudio and mastered by Stéphane Kroug @ electric room mastering. The band doesn’t use the post-rock fans who adored their debut album. On the other hand, they come up with something new: A thrilling and cathartic journey into a myriad of vibrant soundscapes.

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Release Date:  November 22, 2019
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