Jesu, Christmas EP

Wales, 2010.

"Jesu's sound is heavily layered and textured, drawing from and incorporating an eclectic mix of influences, ranging from ambient music, post-metal and drone doom, to shoegazing, downtempo and industrial music. Broadrick himself has made it known that he does not consider Jesu to fall into any of these categories and that he has been intentionally writing what he considers to be coherent and structured pop songs."

Playlist:

1. Christmas
2. Christmas (Pale Sketcher Remix)
3. Christmas (FINAL Remix)

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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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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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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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Bullets In Madison, We Became Your Family When You Died

US, 2010.

Bullets in Madison is an indie-experimental band from the suburbs of Chicago. With a cinematic and orchestral sensibility, their songs center on ambient, key-driven tones. Their sound encompasses everything from brass, guitars, glockenspiel, and violins.

Playlist:

1. Impossible Grave
2. Animals
3. Joel Found His Angel Cowering In The Garden
4. Riots
5. Broken
6. The Eclipse
7. St. Jude
8. Crimes
9. This Is The Last Night
10. Requiem

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Les Discrets, Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées

France, 2010.

Les Discrets is a French metal/shoegaze/post-rock/acoustic project. It is the sole musical creation of Fursy Teyssier, a former member of Amesoeurs and an illustrator for bands such as Alcest, Amesoeurs, Arctic Plateau, Agalloch, Neun Welten and The American Dollar.

Les Discrets is the musical approach of Fursy Teyssier’s artistic research. Originally an animated film director, Fursy tends to evoke the same in both music and animation/illustration: contemplative and esoteric atmospheres, feelings, fears and sensations related to our life and world. His paintings, music or lyrics are mostly about Nature, the feeling of Love and his fear of Death.

This is Les Discrets' debut album and it's absolutely amazing.


Playlist:

1. L'Envol des Corbeaux
2. L'Échappée
3. Les Feuilles de l'Olivier
4. Song for Mountains
5. Sur les Quais
6. Effet de Nuit
7. Septembre et ses Dernières Pensées
8. Chanson d'Automne
9. Svipdagr & Freyja
10. Une Matinée d'Hiver

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Kwoon, Tales & Dreams

France, 2006.

Kwoon is a small post-rock/ambient/atmospheric/shoegaze band of seven members from France. This album captures their beautiful sound, very reminiscent of Gregor Samsa.

Playlist:

1. Intro
2. I Lived on the Moon
3. Blue Melody
4. The Beast
5. Eternal Jellyfish Ballet
6. Last Sundown
7. Tinklëh
8. Tinklëh Skofa
9. The Door
10. Kwoon

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Trespassers William, Having

US, 2006.

Hailing from Southern California, Trespassers William are an indie rock/dream pop band known for their ethereal music. "Having" is their third, released on 28 February 2006 on Nettwerk Records.

Playlist:

1. Safe, Sound
2. What of Me
3. Weakening
4. Eyes Like Bottles
5. I Don’t Mind
6. Ledge
7. And We Lean In
8. My Hands Up
9. Low Point
10. No One
11. Matching Weight

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The Abbasi Brothers, Something Like Nostalgia

US, 2008.

The Abbasi Brothers are, coincidentally, two brothers from Manhattan who make beautiful ambient/electronic/shoegaze/post-rock inspired music, akin to Hammock. This is their debut album.

Playlist:

1. Stacy's Day Parade
2. Kompa
3. Something like Nostalgia
4. Camera Flashes Blue
5. The Way of the Wanderer
6. Dreams of a Graffiti Artist
7. The Social Evening (in 1992)
8. Mr. Boe
9. A Long Weekend
10. In a Field
11. Playtime in Spacetime
12. Approaching the End
13. Fragments of Memories as a Child
14. Reprise
15. Clouds are Sleeping

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Let There Be Light, The Setting Sun EP

Italy, 2009.

Let There Be Light is an Italian duo based in Toronto, formed by Marco Porsia and Piero Frenguelli in 2007. Their first self-released product is this 5 track EP. Their sound can be described as "post-gaze" with a drive aiming to break assuring ways of doing things. Willowy like cobwebs yet steely like shiny metal. Experimental and external. Digital and dedicated, Let There Be Light lifts you up and gently lays you down.


Playlist:

1. Dawn
2. Fear + Desire
3. In Silence
4. Black Stars
5. Coda

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Everything Is Made In China, 4

Russia, 2007.

Everything is made in China is a Russian three-piece post-rock/experimental band formed 2005 in Moscow. Despite being inspired in post-rock, EIMIC's music integrates shoegaze influences, electronic samples and nice, mellow vocals that sets them apart from other bands.

Playlist:

1. Catch & Carry
2. Buy 4 Take One Free
3. My Marshell
4. .
5. Fetters
6. After Rock
7. Closer
8. Day Out (Unpopular 90's)
9. Speed My Way
10. Breathe In
11. Make Trade Fears

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Immanu El, Moen

Sweden, 2009.

Immanu El is a young Swedish band with a unique sound: dynamic guitar and keyboard soundscapes, captive singing and with somewhat of a moving Nordic mood. The music is focused at varying dynamics and a wide spectrum of harmonic expressions and sounds that can move between presence and ambience.

Playlist:

1. Agnes Day
2. Lionheart
3. Aerial
4. Hogamon One
5. Hogamon Two
6. May
7. Archers
8. Tunnel
9. Storm

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Alcest & Les Discrets, Split

France, 2009.

Absolutely brilliant combination of post-rock, shoegaze and black metal. Especially promising considering the upcoming albums by either bands on Prophecy Productions.

Playlist:

1.Les Discrets - L' Échappée
2. Les Discrets - Après L' Ombre
3. Les Discrets - Song For Mountains
4. Alcest - Percées De Lumière
5. Alcest - Circe Poisoning The Sea

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The Dead Sea, Self-titled

Australia, 2009.

Post-rock meets ambient meets shoegaze. Very good debut album.
"...pieces of ambient, insistent, instrumental, experimental, majestic and undeniably moving sounds..."

Playlist:

1. Okono
2. The Devil Bends
3. III
4. Zabriskie Point
5. Nulla Desiderata
6. Little Lights
7. Departure Gates
8. Banquet
9. Bandicoots
10. Slow Jet

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Constants, The Foundation, The Machine, The Ascension

US, 2009.

Caspian meets Russian Circles meets Pelican. Constants is a post-hardcore/post-rock/shoegaze band based in Boston, MA, and this is their second full-length album.

Playlist:

1. Genetics Like Chess Pieces
2. Damien
3. Those Who Came Before Pt. I
4. Those Who Came Before Pt. II
5. The Nameless
6. The Timeless
7. Identify The Indiscernibles
8. Eternal Reoccurrence
9. Abraxas Pt. I
10. Abraxas Pt. II
11. Ascension
12. ...Passage

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Precious Fathers, Alluvial Fan

Canada, 2009.

Vancouver-based instrumental post-rock shoegazer ensemble. Alluvial Fan is the band's second album, released in June this year.

Playlist:

1. Swells
2. 100% Pure Rock Fibres
3. This Is Bolton
4. Pock Lips
5. Sylvan Court
6. Brad Quinn, Medicine Man
7. Alluvial Fan=Bone

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Logh, North

Sweden, 2007.

Indie/post-rock band formed in 1998 in Lund, Sweden. Their music is a subtle mix of post-rock with elements of indie rock and shoegaze.

Playlist:

1. Saturday Nightmares
2. Weather Island
3. The Invitation
4. All The Trees
5. Death To My Hometown
6. The Black Box
7. Forest Eyes
8. Thieves In The Palace
9. Sometimes
10. A New Hope
11. Little Song From Another Place

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Caïna, Caïna EP

England, 2009.

Caïna is a one-man band, from Hampshire/Sussex. Stylistically, it draws from influences as disparate as Black and Death Metal, drone, dream-pop/shoegaze, neofolk and post-rock.

Playlist:

1. The Approaching Chastisement
2. Drilling The Spire
3. To Pluck The Night Up By Its Skin
4. You Worship The Wrong Carpenter

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