Category: Post-Rock / Instrumental

Ambient, Electronica, Experimental, New Release, Post-Rock / Instrumental, Video

NEW MUSIC: Rhian Sheehan – Last Time We Spoke

New Zealand musician and ambient/electronic composer Rhian Sheehan has built a name for himself with nearly a dozen releases plus a wealth of soundtrack work and appearances on numerous compilations. Fans of Nils Frahm will appreciate the nuance and blending of organic and synthetic elements in this piece. The way it pushes and pulls with it’s drifting piano melodies and mechanically-inclined rhythmic pulse. ‘Last Time … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Rhian Sheehan – Last Time We Spoke

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Album Covers, Album Reviews, Americana / Alt-Country, Electronica, Experimental, Post-Rock / Instrumental, Stream

ALBUM REVIEW: Lambchop – This (is what I wanted to tell you)

Lambchop This (Is What I Wanted To Tell You) Merge Records The band Lambchop is a very different beast these days, compared to a decade ago when they numbered up to 12 members with more of a conventional country soul sound. Now Lambchop is essentially Kurt Wagner with a small coterie of collaborators – a much more intimate proposition yet still possessing the gorgeous and … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Lambchop – This (is what I wanted to tell you)

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Ambient, Audio Stream, Electronica, New Music, Post-Rock / Instrumental, Stream

NEW MUSIC: Christopher Willits – Sunset

Christopher Willits is an acclaimed ambient composer and musician who has opened for the late Jóhann Jóhannsson and released two albums with Ryuichi Sakamoto and productions with Tycho as part of his impressive back catalogue. The five compositions on his new album Sunset move from warm to cool designed as a soundtrack to embrace the day’s end. ‘Coast’ rises and falls like the ocean currents, a tidal blend of synth … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Christopher Willits – Sunset

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Electronica, New Music, Post-Rock / Instrumental, Psych, shoegaze, Video

NEW MUSIC: τεφλόν – επίσκεψη

New music this morning from the country of Greece, courtesy of gothic post-rock outfit τεφλόν (teflon) and their track ‘επίσκεψη’ (Episkepsi), the Greek word for visit. This track snakes along with just the right balance of gloomy melody and agile, detailed playing, building with orchestral urgency to a briskly curtailed climax. You can pick up the track as part of the Athens band’s two song EP … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: τεφλόν – επίσκεψη

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Ambient, Audio Stream, Electronica, Experimental, New Music, Post-Rock / Instrumental, Stream

NEW MUSIC: John Beltran – Childhood Memories

It’s the tension and mood of this piece that caught our ear when we came across it online. The way that John Beltran sonically suspends the mood before introducing the tentative snippets of piano that flutter and suggest, like a butterfly unfurling wet wings. The back half emerges with greater weight on the back of swells of synthetic drift that rise and fall with heavy … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: John Beltran – Childhood Memories

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Indie Rock, New Music, Post-Rock / Instrumental, Video

NEW MUSIC: Static Masks – Dust

Some woozy, classic-sounding indie rock from the New Orleans band Static Masks. The guitars sparkle and charm over a precise and measured rhythm section. There are elements of post rock such as Tortoise and the explorations of Pan Am and it builds and evolves into a wonderfully warm fuzz of interwoven guitars. Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Static Masks – Dust

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Ambient, Audio Stream, Experimental, New Music, Post-Rock / Instrumental, shoegaze

NEW MUSIC: Tristan Welch – Tuesday

‘Tuesday’ comes from Tristan Welch‘s 2019 album 40 Hours (via Verses Records (a label collective out of Washington D.C.) and it’s quite a mesmerising, slowly unfurling piece of droning ambient music. There’s a gentle swell, ebb and flow to the track, almost akin to an entity slowly breathing. Guitars, effects and a saxophone shape an immersive listening experience. Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Tristan Welch – Tuesday

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Audio Stream, Guitar Rock, New Music, Post-Rock / Instrumental, Stream

NEW MUSIC: Heron – Splashdown

Guitar notes and chords splash and chime out of a billowing ether of reverb as Heron’s song ‘Splashdown’ slowly emerges, blinking into existence. There’s a patient quality to the track with the intro taking a calm two minutes to blossom into a fuller sound when measured drums entering the equation. The post-rock band from the heart of the Pennsylvania Wilds have a second full-length album … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Heron – Splashdown

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Album Covers, Electronica, Experimental, New Music, Post-Rock / Instrumental, Video

NEW MUSIC: Josephine Wiggs – Time Does Not Bring Relief

Best known for her role as bassist for The Breeders, Josephine Wiggs is also a fine composer of atmospheric ambient music. ‘Time Does Not Bring Relief’ is the first taste of her new solo album We Fall. It’s a haunting piano-based, instrumental composition that gently pushes and pulls rhythmically across nearly five minutes, evoking the work of Harold Budd and Nils Frahm. Evocative, textural soundscape … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Josephine Wiggs – Time Does Not Bring Relief

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Guitar Rock, Indie Rock, New Music, Post-Rock / Instrumental, shoegaze, Video

NEW MUSIC: Unwed Sailor – Ovid

Math-rock, post-rock, call it what you will… The 90s and 00s were a goldmine for this kind of music. Knotty guitars wrestling and dancing in weird shapes, time signatures playing hopscotch and for the most part no vocals. From Slint, Pan Am and Tortoise through to Isis and Pelican the range of sonic detail and emotional outpouring and impact ran the gamut of intensity. Unwed … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Unwed Sailor – Ovid

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Album Covers, Audio Stream, Electronica, Experimental, Post-Rock / Instrumental, Stream

NEW MUSIC: Henrik Von Euler – F-dur

As much as we love manic post-punk, sweet alt-country tunes and arch indie-rock, we also love to bliss out to relaxing ambient sounds. Not the cheesy lift music or Muzak or hippie-lite new age bullshit. We’re talking experimental, avant garde composition, whether it be electronic, acoustic or a combination of the two. Think Eno, Harold Budd, Fenenesz, Caretaker or Hiroshi Yoshimura. This elegant track from … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Henrik Von Euler – F-dur

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Audio Stream, Guitar Rock, New Music, Post-Rock / Instrumental, Psych, Stream

NEW MUSIC: Japanese Television – Bloodworm

Galloping ramalama psych rock hurtles straight out of the gates on this instrumental track from wild and eclectic London quartet Japanese Television. It’s like a manic sideshow ride with a streak of reverb-laden surf rock blasting out of battered amusement park speakers. The song careens along with patches of spiralling space rock sending bent organ notes exploding skyward. You think it’s over and it all … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Japanese Television – Bloodworm

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