Category Archives: Rock, Post-Rock, Folk & Jazz

Haiku Salut / Hopeless Local Marching Band

Earlier this year, Japan’s Hopeless Local Marching Band released the wonderful short album Caffeine and Sleeping Pills, which represented a shift to the chapter track: long score-like songs unfolding like books.  This shift happily continues with two new pieces on this split EP,

Haiku Salut / Hopeless Local Marching Band

Earlier this year, Japan’s Hopeless Local Marching Band released the wonderful short album Caffeine and Sleeping Pills, which represented a shift to the chapter track: long score-like songs unfolding like books.  This shift happily continues with two new pieces on this split EP,

Eternal Tapestry ~ A World Out Of Time

For their second full-length of the year Eternal Tapestry ring the changes by recording an album as a conceptual whole, rather than assembling the final work from a bunch of different tapes laid down over time.  It’s not the most

Eternal Tapestry ~ A World Out Of Time

For their second full-length of the year Eternal Tapestry ring the changes by recording an album as a conceptual whole, rather than assembling the final work from a bunch of different tapes laid down over time.  It’s not the most

A Shelter in the Desert ~ Maze of Memories

In the category of “Mexican post-rock”, Wikipedia lists only three bands, while neglecting to name my own personal favorite, The Polar Dream, as well as my new favorite, A Shelter in the Desert.  (Oddly, The Polar Dream’s album is called “Follow

A Shelter in the Desert ~ Maze of Memories

In the category of “Mexican post-rock”, Wikipedia lists only three bands, while neglecting to name my own personal favorite, The Polar Dream, as well as my new favorite, A Shelter in the Desert.  (Oddly, The Polar Dream’s album is called “Follow

Svarta Stugan ~ Svarta Stugan

The Swedish duo Svarta Stugen calls its sound “post-rock/twee noise, a cuter form of noise”.  The definition sounds daft until one listens ~ then it fits.  Their self-titled debut EP begins in typical post-rock fashion, then mutates into something unrecognizable, as if

Svarta Stugan ~ Svarta Stugan

The Swedish duo Svarta Stugen calls its sound “post-rock/twee noise, a cuter form of noise”.  The definition sounds daft until one listens ~ then it fits.  Their self-titled debut EP begins in typical post-rock fashion, then mutates into something unrecognizable, as if

Caspian ~ Waking Season

When You Are the Conductor dropped in 2005, we knew that we were in the presence of something special.  The EP was short, sweet and refined, an introduction to what would become one of the last decade’s most beloved post-rock bands.  Stretching

Caspian ~ Waking Season

When You Are the Conductor dropped in 2005, we knew that we were in the presence of something special.  The EP was short, sweet and refined, an introduction to what would become one of the last decade’s most beloved post-rock bands.  Stretching

Eziak ~ Nomads

Nomads by Eziak is the latest release by Greek label Triple Bath, a label whose releases have crossed the boundaries between pretty much all genres of experimental music.  On its website, Triple Bath declares its love for low-key, mysterious music, and Eziak are

Eziak ~ Nomads

Nomads by Eziak is the latest release by Greek label Triple Bath, a label whose releases have crossed the boundaries between pretty much all genres of experimental music.  On its website, Triple Bath declares its love for low-key, mysterious music, and Eziak are

Le Réveil Des Tropiques ~ Le Réveil Des Tropiques

Every post-rock album released this season arrives in the wake of Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s surprise comeback.  Of the myriad releases in this umbrella network, none is so competent and so Godspeed-like as the self-titled debut effort from the Paris

Le Réveil Des Tropiques ~ Le Réveil Des Tropiques

Every post-rock album released this season arrives in the wake of Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s surprise comeback.  Of the myriad releases in this umbrella network, none is so competent and so Godspeed-like as the self-titled debut effort from the Paris

Children of the Wave ~ The Electric Sounds of Far Away Choirs

Children of the Wave are a band from Melbourne, Australia, and like true children of the wave, make music whose form changes from one moment to the next, defying genres and surprising us at every corner.  While their music is truly

Children of the Wave ~ The Electric Sounds of Far Away Choirs

Children of the Wave are a band from Melbourne, Australia, and like true children of the wave, make music whose form changes from one moment to the next, defying genres and surprising us at every corner.  While their music is truly