blueneck, Repetitions

UK, 2011

blueneck released Repetitions in September 2011. This record is absolutely soothing and beautiful, yet simultaneously chilling and intense. The haunting vocals and lulling melody make up for a definite must-listen for any post-rock fan.

Playlist:
1. Pneumothorax
2. Sawbones
3. Venger
4. Sleeping Through a Storm
5. Una Salus Victus
6. Ellipsis
7. Barriers Down
8. The Last Refuge
9. Lopussa

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Mothlite, Dark Age

UK, 2012

Daniel O’Sullivan releases his second album under the Mothlite moniker on May 14th through Kscope. ‘Dark Age’ is the follow-up to 2008’s ‘The Flax Of Reverie’ (Southern Records).

"This is prevalent in the lyrical content, which denotes a catharsis throughout a period of hysteria and emotional turmoil”. He describes ‘Dark Age’ as “Dark megalomania, contradictions and paradoxes, and general bleakness”, yet rarely does such subject matter get delivered with the soaring pop aplomb as on the album’s twelve tracks, flitting from sparkle and rumble of ‘The Blood’ to the epic washes of ‘The Underneath’ and beyond. The album has allowed O’Sullivan to break free from the confines of genre, taking influence from the likes of Tears For Fears and Kate Bush from his parents’ record collection through the industrial and gothic textures of DAF, The Cure, Coil and Dead Can Dance to the hardcore punk of his own personal roots. - last.fm

Playlist:

1. Wounded Lions

2. Disappear

3. Seeing in the Dark

4. The Blood

5. Something in the Sky

6. The Underneath

7. Zebras

8. Dreamsinter Nighspore

9. Milk

10. Dark Age

11. Red Rook

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Vessels, Helioscope

England, 2011.

Vessels is a post-rock band from Leeds, formed in September 2005.

Playlist:

1. Monoform
2. The Trap
3. Recur
4. Later Than You Think
5. Meatman, Piano Tuner, Prostitute
6. Art/Choke
7. Heal
8. All Our Ends
9. Spun Infinite

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Long Distance Calling, Self-titled

Germany, 2011.

“We are just a tiny part of the ever growing universe. It's the important third album, so we decided to call the album Long Distance Calling as a statement.”

Playlist:

1. Into The Black Wide Open
2. The Figrin D'an Boogie
3. Invisible Giants
4. Timebends
5. Arecibo (Long Distance Calling)
6. Middleville
7. Beyond The Void

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L'Altra, Telepathic

US, 2010.

L’Altra is the stormy collaboration of singer-guitarist Joseph Desler Costa and singer-keyboardist Lindsay Anderson.

Coming out of their respective corners, the duo have composed and recorded their fourth studio album, Telepathic. The songs, initially crafted apart by the two artists in separate locations, come together as a swirling and beautifully unified whole.

Playlist:

1. Dark Corners I
2. Nothing Can Tear It Apart
3. Big Air Kiss
4. Boys
5. When the Ships Sinks
6. Black Wind
7. Either Was the Other's Mine
8. Winter Loves Summer Sun
9. This Bruise
10. Telepathic
11. Dark Corners II

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Líam, Journey... Two Years and a Fragment

Germany, 2008

Líam is a band hailing from the German state of Nordrhein-Westfalen, founded by M. Bochnig in early 2007. Although the band is usually labelled as post-rock, it contains some black metal elements, making it a candidate for the post-black metal genre.

Playlist:

1. Born
2. Wide
3. A Decision
4. Air
5. Out
6. Debris
7. Etienne
8. Particles

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Cyann & Ben, Happy Like An Autumn Tree

France, 2005.

Cyann & Ben is a French post-rock band formed in 2001. Their sound is not a usual post-rock sound. They have a warm and mellow, almost pop-like sound and they have electronic influences too.

This album impressed me because it sounds completely different from everything else I've been listening to. It's very mellow and folkish, but can get psychedelic at times too. I really recommend it.



Playlist:

1. Circle
2. (Silences and Little Melodies for...)
3. Gone To Waste
4. Close To Discovery
5. A Moment Nowhere
6. (Tide)
7. Summer
8. Obsessing And Screaming Voice In A Shell


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Maybeshewill, To The Skies From A Hillside

England, 2010.

Maybeshewill are an instrumental band from Leicester, UK. Maybeshewill’s music is characterised by the use of electronic elements alongside more traditional ‘rock’ instrumentation. The band’s music is also littered with references to film and popular culture. This is their latest EP.

Playlist:

1. To the Skies From a Hillside
2. Спутник-2
3. To The Skies From A Hillside (The Party Mushroom Remix)

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...And The Earth Swarmed With Them, The Fading Voice Of The Old Era Speaks To Us, But Where Are The Ears Left To Hear It?

England, 2010.

…And The Earth Swarmed With Them is the project of Mitchell Johns & Kat Stanbridge.

They were recently joined in the studio by Ted Parsons (Jesu, Godflesh & Ex-Swans member) for their latest EP “The Fading Voice Of The Old Era Speaks To Us, But Where Are The Ears Left To Hear It?”.

Playlist:

1. Everyone Will Fade
2. As We Drove...
3. Always Looking Backwards (For Those Without Eyes)
4. The Slow Decay Had Already Begun

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Sey Hollo, Self-titled

Sweden, 2010.

Sey Hollo is the solo-project of Sebastian Larsson from Sweden and the debut album was released in the late summer of 2010. Sey Hollo plays instrumental post-rock based on rusty guitars and tramp organs. Friends of Sey Hollo describe it as "poor man's post-rock" with a heavy, yet beautiful, sound. Sey Hollo's music is inspired by everything from punk to post-rock to politics.

Playlist:

1. Dependistas
2. Eighty Five Percent
3. Thank You Very Much
4. The Sleepy Taxpayer
5. Neo-Future (Let Them Wait)
6. A Toxic Toast To Broken Promises
7. B My Friend 4 Ever

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Misuse, Self-titled

Greece, 2008.

Before you completely dismiss this album as yet another generic post-rock band, you should know that this is actually quite impressive stuff.

Playlist:

1. Desecid
2. Made: Genesis
3. Made: Flat Line Evolution
4. Made: Loss in Action
5. Progyria
6. Amanzi
7. While it Lasts
8. Way to the Seashore

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Álfheimr, These Songs We Sing Will Fade to Silence

US, 2009.

Álfheimr is the one-person post-rock project formed in Portland, Oregon in 2008 by Madison Asche. Álfheimr’s first release was “These Songs We Sing Will Fade to Silence".

Playlist:

1. Wasted Time, Part One- The Moon Says ‘I Love You’
2. Each Day We Pass is Borrowed Time
3. It Shouldn’t Have Mattered
4. The Remnants of Our Shattered Lives Collide Like Glass on Glass
5. Hypnos & Thanatos (Breathing In, Breathing Out)
6. The Slow Approach to Midnight
7. Asleep and Falling There; Dead and Dying
8. Wasted Time, Part Two- You Will Look Back On Every Second You Have Wasted. You Will Never Be Prepared to Face This

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Jessica Bailiff, Old Things

US, 2007.

Jessica Bailiff is an American singer-songwriter from Toledo, Ohio. Her music is largely classified as slowcore, although it contains elements of post-rock. It is essentially a droning, experimental style of slow-tempo music which coalesces textured, blurry and surreal sounds with immersed vocals.

Playlist:

1. Your Sounds Make Patterns In My Eyes
2. Helpless
3. Warren
4. Shadow
5. Crush (Version 2)
6. Amethyst Depression
7. Maybe Tomorrow
8. Let Time Breathe
9. Nicholson Square 2
10. For April

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Matryoshka, Zatracenie

Japan, 2007.

Matryoshka is a Tokyo, Japan based band consisting of the track maker Sen and the female vocalist Calu. Their music is a mix of post-rock, shoegaze, ambient, electronic and modern classical.

Playlist:

1. Sink Into The Sin
2. Slowsnow
3. Evening Gleam Between Cloud
4. Viridian
5. My Funeral Rehearsal
6. Tyrant's Miniature Garden
7. Anesthetic
8. Ezekiel
9. Beyond
10. February Lifesaver

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Cecilia::Eyes, Here Dead We Lie

Belgium, 2010.

Founded in Autumn 2004, Cecilia::Eyes is a subtle mixture of instrumental and dark music, with a taste for slow and noisy tunes.

Playlist:

1. Like Wolves
2. For The Fallen
3. Anthem For Doomed Youth
4. Four Lost Soldiers
5. The Departure
6. Fifty Years Under The Tent
7. No Prayers, No Bells, No Homeland
8. Death For Treason

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Toundra, II

Spain, 2010.

"Toundra is a band from Madrid, Spain emerged in 2007, as phoenix, from disappeared ones Nacen De Las Cenizas, who left a great (good) taste in mouth among national hardcore followers, despite the brief of his career. In this case, the new creature has decided to dispense vocals and provides us with an entirely instrumental sound where guitars, bass and drums take on the entire role."

Playlist:

1. Tchod
2. Magreb
3. Zanzíbar
4. Völand
5. Danubio / Danube
6. Koschei
7. Bizancio / Byzantium

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Glowworm, The Coachlight Woods

US, 2008.

Glowworm is a chamber rock/electronica band from Portland started by Kevin Davis with the help of Jesse Robert W. in 2006. The Coachlight Woods is Glowworm’s first full length LP.

Playlist:

1. Periphescence
2. Contrails
3. The Captive
4. Lux
5. Nightshores
6. Cracks in the Desert Sea of St. George
7. Lith
8. Into the Woods
9. Glow Scraped From the Earth

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French Teen Idol, Enlightened False Consciousness

Italy, 2007.

French Teen Idol is an instrumental solo-project run by the Roman artist Andrea Di Carlo. An elegant mix of post-rock and electronic influences, French Teen Idol’s music provides the listener with cinematic landscapes, dramatic crescendos and striking vocal samples.

Playlist:

1. The Following Takes Place Between 0’00” And 57’30”
2. The Longest Night
3. Memento
4. Departure
5. The Fleeting Beauty Of A Butterfly
6. Compromise Your (He)Art
7. Ode To A Departing Friend
8. Enlightened False Consciousness
9. Stay
10. Rebirth

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God Is An Astronaut, Age Of The Fifth Sun

Ireland, 2010.

Age Of The Fifth Sun, the fifth studio album by Irish post-rock band God Is an Astronaut, was released on May this year.

Playlist:

1. Worlds in Collision
2. In the Distance Fading
3. Lost Kingdom
4. Golden Sky
5. Dark Rift
6. Parallel Highway
7. Shining Through
8. Age of the Fifth Sun
9. Paradise Remains

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Souvenir's Young America, The Name Of The Snake

US, 2010.

Souvenir’s Young America is a three piece instrumental band from Richmond, VA. They create a very unique and interesting sounding - reminds you of the cinematic American desert - instrumental post-rock/post-metal.

Playlist:

1. Water (Forgetting The Past)
2. Vanishing (Remaining)
3. Dust (Erasing The Future)
4. Amnesia (A Victor's History)
5. 6:38
6. 3:17
7. 9:18

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