Artist: Ólafur Arnalds
Track: Ljósið
Album: Found Songs (2009)
Ólafur Arnalds is a multi-instrumentalist and producer from Mosfellsbær, Iceland. Ólafur Arnalds mixes strings and piano with loops and edgy beats crossing-over from classical to pop. Arnalds was a drummer of hardcore/metal bands Fighting Shit and Celestine, as well as others.
In April 2009, Arnalds composed and released a track daily for seven days, instantly making each track available within 24 hours from foundsongs.erasedtapes.com. The collection of tracks was entitled Found Songs.
Follow @olafurarnalds on Twitter for latest updates
Thursday, 9 February 2012
Thursday, 2 February 2012
Remember Remember - Scottish Widows
Artist: Remember Remember
Track: Scottish Widows
Album: The Quickening (2011)
Remember Remember is multi instrumentalist Graeme Ronald, and to date has released two albums; "Remember Remember" (2008) and "The Quickening" (2011), both on Mogwai's Rock Action label.
Buy either of these release, and more, on Big Cartel.
Follow @Rmmbr_Rmmbr on Twitter for latest updates
Track: Scottish Widows
Album: The Quickening (2011)
Remember Remember is multi instrumentalist Graeme Ronald, and to date has released two albums; "Remember Remember" (2008) and "The Quickening" (2011), both on Mogwai's Rock Action label.
Buy either of these release, and more, on Big Cartel.
Follow @Rmmbr_Rmmbr on Twitter for latest updates
Thursday, 26 January 2012
Lanterns On The Lake - Lungs Quicken
Artist: Lanterns On The Lake
Track: Lungs Quicken
Album: Gracious Tide, Take Me Home (2011)
Lanterns On The Lake is a six-piece indie rock band from Newcastle-upon-tyne, who formed in 2008. The band have released two EPs, ‘The Starlight EP’ (2009) and ‘Misfortunes & Minor Victories’ (2010). Budgets being tiny for the EPs, the band borrowed an eight-track recorder and captured every intimate breath and soaring crescendo in their own homes and at an isolated house in Northumberland. Handmade sleeves for both EPs reinforced the self-sufficient approach.
Their début album ‘Gracious Tide, Take Me Home’ was released on 19 September 2011 through Bella Union . The album was produced by Paul, as he did the band’s first two EPs. Relishing their independence, the band eschewed a recording studio for the album, though the loud bits were done in a basement of a shop in Newcastle.
The album 'Gracious Tide, Take Me Home' is available for £10 on Big Cartel, and EP's can be grabbed for a few quid over at Bandcamp.
Follow @lanternstalk on Twitter for latest updates
Track: Lungs Quicken
Album: Gracious Tide, Take Me Home (2011)
Lanterns On The Lake is a six-piece indie rock band from Newcastle-upon-tyne, who formed in 2008. The band have released two EPs, ‘The Starlight EP’ (2009) and ‘Misfortunes & Minor Victories’ (2010). Budgets being tiny for the EPs, the band borrowed an eight-track recorder and captured every intimate breath and soaring crescendo in their own homes and at an isolated house in Northumberland. Handmade sleeves for both EPs reinforced the self-sufficient approach.
Their début album ‘Gracious Tide, Take Me Home’ was released on 19 September 2011 through Bella Union . The album was produced by Paul, as he did the band’s first two EPs. Relishing their independence, the band eschewed a recording studio for the album, though the loud bits were done in a basement of a shop in Newcastle.
The album 'Gracious Tide, Take Me Home' is available for £10 on Big Cartel, and EP's can be grabbed for a few quid over at Bandcamp.
Follow @lanternstalk on Twitter for latest updates
Thursday, 19 January 2012
Lights Out Asia - Psiu! Puxa!
Artist: Lights Out Asia
Track: Psiu! Puxa!
Album: Eyes Like Brontide (2008)
Lights Out Asia is an electronic musical project that formed in February 2003 when Chris Schafer and Mike Ystad, themselves members of Aurore Rien, decided to abandon the traditional post-rock band concept of their previous group and explore the intersection of post-rock, electronic and ambient music.
The band is known for their blending of synthesized atmospheres, samples and electronic beats with tracks of effects-laden delayed guitars. Chris Schafer's vocals are often mixed low, treated almost as another instrument, akin to dream-pop or shoegazing arrangements.
Track: Psiu! Puxa!
Album: Eyes Like Brontide (2008)
Lights Out Asia is an electronic musical project that formed in February 2003 when Chris Schafer and Mike Ystad, themselves members of Aurore Rien, decided to abandon the traditional post-rock band concept of their previous group and explore the intersection of post-rock, electronic and ambient music.
The band is known for their blending of synthesized atmospheres, samples and electronic beats with tracks of effects-laden delayed guitars. Chris Schafer's vocals are often mixed low, treated almost as another instrument, akin to dream-pop or shoegazing arrangements.
Thursday, 12 January 2012
Canyons of Static - Are We Still The Good Guys
Artist: Canyons of Static
Track: Are We Still The Good Guys
Album: The Disappearance (2008)
Canyons of Static (also sometimes written as canyonsofstatic) is a band from West Bend, WI, formed in 2005. Featuring husband and wife guitarist Ross Severson and keyboardist Aggie Severson along with bassist Chris Biertzer and drummer Nathan Gaffney.
Canyons of Static is an instrumental quartet that blends the distorted melodies of shoegaze with the intensely emotional aspects of post-rock. With no central songwriter, the music evolves from a collective process of experimentation challenging the boundaries and forms of traditional rock music.
The album 'The Disappearance' is available for $5 on Bandcamp.
Follow @canyonsmusic on Twitter for latest updates
Track: Are We Still The Good Guys
Album: The Disappearance (2008)
Canyons of Static (also sometimes written as canyonsofstatic) is a band from West Bend, WI, formed in 2005. Featuring husband and wife guitarist Ross Severson and keyboardist Aggie Severson along with bassist Chris Biertzer and drummer Nathan Gaffney.
Canyons of Static is an instrumental quartet that blends the distorted melodies of shoegaze with the intensely emotional aspects of post-rock. With no central songwriter, the music evolves from a collective process of experimentation challenging the boundaries and forms of traditional rock music.
The album 'The Disappearance' is available for $5 on Bandcamp.
Follow @canyonsmusic on Twitter for latest updates
Thursday, 5 January 2012
Top 10 releases of 2011
Here's my list of albums you should really try to get your hands on from 2011, I've left the bigger hitters out, Explosions In The Sky, Russian Circles, Mogwai, This Will Destroy You. That's no disrespect to the bands on the list either by the way.
Links to CD versions where available (cos they're so much prettier than digital albums), and to MP3's. For name your price stuff please consider giving a little.
Any others you think worthy of a mention?
Links to CD versions where available (cos they're so much prettier than digital albums), and to MP3's. For name your price stuff please consider giving a little.
I Am Waiting For You Last Summer - I Am Waiting For You Last Summer EP
Bleaklow - The Sunless Country
Damascus - Salutations, Distant Satellite!
Overhead, The Albatross - Lads With Sticks
Arctic Whisperings - óvænt lán
Download - Name Your Price
I Am Waiting For You Last Summer is a 3-piece post rock band formed in Ryazan, Russia in 2011.
Top track: Solar Wind
Download - Name Your Price
Bleaklow is a three piece instrumental band from Sheffield featuring ex-members of Architects.
2009's release L'etranger is also worth picking up, it's currently Name Your Price on Bandcamp.
Top track: It's a 1-track EP, so all of it!
Download - Name Your Price
Damascus is an ambient instrumental metal band from New Jersey. Their debut album “Salutations, Distant Satellite!” was released in May 2011. A second ep, “Of Whom I Always Think”, was independently released by the band on October 1st.
Top track: Celestial Hymn
Download - FREE
Overhead, The Albatross are a six piece post rock/experimental band based in Kildare and Dublin (mostly-ish). Formed in late November 2009, so far the band are pretty much instrumental.
Lads With Sticks is their first EP, and a follow up Mr. Dog is now available on their Bandcamp for FREE.
Top track: Jonah
Download - €5.00
Arctic Whisperings manage to combine beautifully quiet found sounds & field recordings from chilling landscapes with some of the most delicate and creative instrumental arrangements.
Soundscapes influenced by the beautifully desolate landscapes and sounds of the chilling arctic echos of the northern world.
Top track: Evenks / The world will end as children play
Lowercase Noises – Migratory Patterns
Years of Rice and Salt – Nothing of Cities
The Mountaineering Club Orchestra - A Start On Such A Night Is Full Of Promise
Tunturia - Invisible City
And So I Watch You From Afar - Gangs
Download - $2.99
Lowercase Noises is the musical brainchild of Andy Othling, a multi-instrumentalist, producer and artist from Albuquerque, NM. All programming and composition on Lowercase Noises’ albums are performed by Andy, with exception of the occasional guest musician or vocalist.
There are a couple of name your price albums and paid for downloads on Bandcamp.
Top track: Jonah
CD - $10.00
Download - Name Your Price
Years of Rice and Salt is a 6-piece instrumental post-rock band based in London, United Kingdom.
Nothing Of Cities is their first full-length recording.
Top track: Eskimo Kiss
CD - £10.00
Digital - Name Your Price
The Mountaineering Club Orchestra (TMCO) is the the solo project of The Mountaineering Club member Tom Adams.
A Start On Such A Night Is Full Of Promise is a set of compositions and instrumental songs inspired by the first crossing of Greenland made by an expedition led by Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen in 1888.
Top track: The Voyage
CD - €10.99
Digital - Name Your Price
Tunturia is a 4-piece post rock band from Toronto, Canada.
Invisible City, their second album after Maps, is a mesmerising mix of ambient sounds, post rock riffs and waves, and the feeling that only dedication can put into music. Every sound and tone sits where it should, there seems to be a place for everything and everything is in its place.
Top track: Sinking
And So I Watch You From Afar is a three-piece rock band from Belfast, Northern Ireland. The band consists of Rory Friers on guitar, Johnny Adger on bass and Chris Wee on drums.
They are signed to Richter Collective and in October of 2011 the band announced a deal in North America with management and record label Sargent House who released Gangs on November 8th, 2011.
Top track: Search:Party:Animal
Any others you think worthy of a mention?
Dream Youth - Give Us A New Place To Land
Artist: Dream Youth
Track: Give Us A New Place To Land
Album: While(Growing)HoldStill(); (2010)
Dream Youth is a 3-piece instrumental band from Viana do Castelo, Portugal. They cite their biggest influences as Dream Theater and Sonic Youth, hence the name Dream Youth.
To date Dream Youth have release one studio album While(Growing)HoldStill(); and this is available to download on Bandcamp for any price you like, along with a nice cover of Interpol's Lights.
Track: Give Us A New Place To Land
Album: While(Growing)HoldStill(); (2010)
Dream Youth is a 3-piece instrumental band from Viana do Castelo, Portugal. They cite their biggest influences as Dream Theater and Sonic Youth, hence the name Dream Youth.
To date Dream Youth have release one studio album While(Growing)HoldStill(); and this is available to download on Bandcamp for any price you like, along with a nice cover of Interpol's Lights.
Thursday, 29 December 2011
Nice Wings, Icarus! - Mastodon
Artist: Nice Wings, Icarus!
Track: Mastodon
Album: Aurora (2011)
Nice Wings, Icarus! is an violin-driven instrumental band from the Ukraine. Formed in February 2008 by Yuriy Nagorniy (guitar) and Yuriy Kasyanenko (drums), with Sergiy Zaika (guitar), Vadim Matuzenko (bass) and Daniil Grudzinskiy (violin), they have released 2 albums, Nice Wings, Icarus! and Aurora.
Buy both releases on Bandcamp.
Track: Mastodon
Album: Aurora (2011)
Nice Wings, Icarus! is an violin-driven instrumental band from the Ukraine. Formed in February 2008 by Yuriy Nagorniy (guitar) and Yuriy Kasyanenko (drums), with Sergiy Zaika (guitar), Vadim Matuzenko (bass) and Daniil Grudzinskiy (violin), they have released 2 albums, Nice Wings, Icarus! and Aurora.
Buy both releases on Bandcamp.
Thursday, 22 December 2011
Across Waters - More Light Is Never Ending
Artist: Across Waters
Track: More Light Is Never Ending
Album: More Light Is Never Ending (2011)
Across Waters is a 4-piece post rock band from Denton, Texas. They have released one album, More Light Is Never Ending, in November 2011.
"With a melodramatic flare and an impeccable ability to perform the narrative of the Gospel, Across Waters continually cultivates a spirit of love towards all they come across. With the release of their debut album, Across Waters seek to relish in the gospel, sharing it with larger audiences and opening doors to minister to the lost." -Joanna Lugo (Hopecore.com)
Follow @acrosswatersTX on Twitter for latest updates
Track: More Light Is Never Ending
Album: More Light Is Never Ending (2011)
Across Waters is a 4-piece post rock band from Denton, Texas. They have released one album, More Light Is Never Ending, in November 2011.
"With a melodramatic flare and an impeccable ability to perform the narrative of the Gospel, Across Waters continually cultivates a spirit of love towards all they come across. With the release of their debut album, Across Waters seek to relish in the gospel, sharing it with larger audiences and opening doors to minister to the lost." -Joanna Lugo (Hopecore.com)
Follow @acrosswatersTX on Twitter for latest updates
Thursday, 15 December 2011
Empire Express - I Miss Home (You)
Artist: Empire Express
Track: I Miss Home (You)
Album: Valleyland (2011)
Empire Express are a 9-piece post rock outfit from Sweden. Their music has been described as a prudent blend of beautiful melodies and harmonic monotony merging into massive sound walls.
Track: I Miss Home (You)
Album: Valleyland (2011)
Empire Express are a 9-piece post rock outfit from Sweden. Their music has been described as a prudent blend of beautiful melodies and harmonic monotony merging into massive sound walls.
Thursday, 8 December 2011
Aesthesys - Sailing to Byzantium
Artist: Aesthesys
Track: Sailing to Byzantium
Album: Crossing The Shoreline (2010)
Aesthesys is a project of russian musician Nickholas Koniwzski (also participates in post-rock Курс Кая), founded in 2007. The music can be described as instrumental post-rock with ambient and neoclassical influences. The name is derived from the abbreviation AESTHE (An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything) and it looks like misspelled word ‘aesthetic’.
A 5-album discography is available to download for free on the Aesthesys website, which is well worth getting.
Track: Sailing to Byzantium
Album: Crossing The Shoreline (2010)
Aesthesys is a project of russian musician Nickholas Koniwzski (also participates in post-rock Курс Кая), founded in 2007. The music can be described as instrumental post-rock with ambient and neoclassical influences. The name is derived from the abbreviation AESTHE (An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything) and it looks like misspelled word ‘aesthetic’.
A 5-album discography is available to download for free on the Aesthesys website, which is well worth getting.
Video courtesy of postrockmusic on Vimeo.
Thursday, 1 December 2011
The Television Sky - Five Versts From Departure
Artist: The Television Sky
Track: Five Versts From Departure
Album: We Trust That The Moon Shall Guide Us (2011)
The Television Sky is a three-piece garage post-rock band from Melbourne, Australia. Recorded in the summer of 2010, We Trust That The Moon Shall Guide Us is a stark portrayal of The Television Sky's formative works.
Follow @tv_sky_band on Twitter for latest updates
Track: Five Versts From Departure
Album: We Trust That The Moon Shall Guide Us (2011)
The Television Sky is a three-piece garage post-rock band from Melbourne, Australia. Recorded in the summer of 2010, We Trust That The Moon Shall Guide Us is a stark portrayal of The Television Sky's formative works.
Follow @tv_sky_band on Twitter for latest updates
Thursday, 24 November 2011
Kovlo - Rovaniemi
Artist: Kovlo
Track: Rovaniemi
Album: Hey Mom, where's Timbuktu? (2011)
Kovlo are a Swiss post-rock outfit, with influences from noise-rock and even jazz. Buy their album on Bandcamp.
Follow @KOVLO on Twitter for latest updates
Track: Rovaniemi
Album: Hey Mom, where's Timbuktu? (2011)
Kovlo are a Swiss post-rock outfit, with influences from noise-rock and even jazz. Buy their album on Bandcamp.
Follow @KOVLO on Twitter for latest updates
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
