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.

Maïak creates one of key post-rock releases of 2015. They created to something big, something to be heard!
Created in 2010 in Lausanne, Switzerland, Maïak is composed of four musicians influenced by wide dynamics of post-rock soundscapes and fearless to experiment sudden shifts of atmospheres.

The group was named after Maïak, a nuclear plant in the Soviet Union, where one of the worst nuclear disasters of all times took place and despite its dramatic consequences, stayed hidden for decades.

Filled with the symbolic weight of a catastrophe that arose as the punishment of man’s guilty arrogance in an outburst remained silent, Maïak delivers a dark and powerful instrumental rock that evolves between tenuous melancholy and chaotic blast.

"A Very Pleasant Way to Die" is the pure post-rock at its best.” says Taner Torun, our label founder.

Recorded with a certain sense of urgency (three days session for forty two minutes of pure post-rock music), "A Very Pleasant Way to Die" wanders through the different colours of the band's aural palette. The album seethes with raw energy.

The five tracks share complex constructions, blending murky soothing melodies with outbursts of powerful clamour and noiseful explorations. You would at times crave to lie down and gaze at the stars, but you would soon feel the urge to bounce back on your feet and bang your head until you break your neck.