Album: Aiua - Aiua
Band: Aiua
Album: Aiua
Label: Escapartist Records
Year: 2011
Tracklist
01. Within The Roche Limit
02. Wandering Flatliner
03. (Quiet Night) Falling Moon
04. World Outside Ourselves
05. Shut-In
06. Course Of Empire
07. Reckless Relentless
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Aiua’s debut self-titled album takes no small steps in establishing who they are. Starting off with what seems to be the general post-rock format, the album takes a steady turn towards new ground. A sweeping ensemble accompanied by bells and mountainous reverb soon becomes a hurricane of distortion that grips emotions throughout. Glitched, panning loops enveloped by backward-tracked percussion return to entrancing bowed guitars and uplifting rhythm. The album comes to a turning point as a Volta-esque piece is intensified by the cries of a beam theremin, only to be topped by rapid guitars and violent drums ending in a sudden stop. The debut culminates in an outcry of excited buildup and emotion, leaving the listener with a feeling only elicited by instrumental music of this caliber.
Aiua self-produced their self-titled over the course of 2009 and 2010, and they proudly present it to all willing to listen. They have played with the likes of Caspian, Moving Mountains, Native, and Chiaroscuro; and that was all in one release show. With a bold beginning and a promising future, Aiua moves forward towards securing their place as a new progressive band in their genre.
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Instrumental
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Post-Rock
Album: Dala Sun - Gegenschein
Band: Dala Sun
Album: Gegenschein
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012
Tracklist
01. Sludge Machine
02. Flying Midget
03. Overdosed
04. Guilty For Murder
05. Fistful Of Teeth
06. Monokitaro
07. Riding Donkeys Backwards
08. Gegenschein
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EP: sleepmakeswaves - sleepmakeswaves
Band: sleepmakeswaves
Album: sleepmakeswaves EP
Label: Bird's Robe Records
Year: 2012
Tracklist
01. Keep Your Splendid Silent Sun
02. We Sing The Body Electric
03. The Obstacle Is The Path
04. I Will Write Peace On Your Wings, And You Will Fly Over The World
05. One Day You Will Teach Me To Let Go Of My Fears
06. It's Dark, It's Cold, It's Wwinter
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Since their formation in late 2006, sleepmakeswaves have rapidly established themselves as a promising and unique voice in their field. Within the space of a year the band has enjoyed considerable word-of-mouth support and have landed auspicious opening slots with post-rock luminaries such as Pelican, Laura and Meniscus on the back of their powerful live show and acclaimed demo recording.
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Labels:
Instrumental
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Post-Rock
Band: Ghone
Band: Ghone
Album: Amen.Ophis
Label: Catch The Soap Productions
Year: 2012
Tracklist
01. Amen
02. Ophis
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Band: Ghone
Album: Untitled
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012
Tracklist
01. Untitled
02. Untitled
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Official Site
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Band: Fingerspit
Band: Fingerspit
Album: Space Demos
Label: Self Released
Year: 2010
Tracklist
01. Intro
02. Across The Sky
03. Last Minutes On Earth
04. Up and Ahead
05. Space Years
06. Burning Ocean
07. Inside Venus
08. A Galaxy Rise
09. Outro
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Band: Fingerspit
Album: 2
Label: Self Released
Year: 2010
Tracklist
01. Chorused Air
02. Elwa
03. Apophenia
04. Reality Testing
05. DKW
06. Bedlife
07. Sohn
08. Whole
09. Lab
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Fingerspit is a Spanish one man instrumental band influenced by post-rock and ambient.
Fingerspit decided to post a selfmade song (“Across the Sky”) on a well known image-based bulletin board called 4chan, to get reactions from his peers. The responses were positive and he soon posted other songs.
Bandcamp
Labels:
Ambient
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Experimental
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Post-Rock
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Trip-Hop
Album: 36 - Lithea
Band: 36
Album: Lithea
Label: 3six Recordings
Year: 2012
Tracklist
01. Clear
02. Cocoon
03. Susurrus
04. Lithea
05. Deluge
06. Radio
07. Reunion
08. 1983
09. One
10. World After April
11. Seance
12. Dreamscape
13. Dayasan
14. Broken Toy
15. Leviathan
16. Levitate
17. Saphron
18. Another World
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Labels:
Ambient
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Down-Tempo
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Electronic
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Instrumental
Video: Youarehere - Tape Cr02 rmx (micro remix)
Labels:
Ambient
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Electronic
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IDM
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Post-Rock
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Video
Album: Dyskinesia - Dyskinesia
Band: Dyskinesia
Album: Dyskinesia
Label: Frohike Records
Year: 2009
Tracklist
01. L'Ultimo Giorno
02. Giorno Zero
03. Il Primo Giorno
04. Il Secondo Giorno
05. Il Principio Di Conservazione Della Materia
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2010 has been a very prolific period. The guys recorded a couple of split albums, with other great Italian drone/ambient projects like “Corpoparassita” and “Gioventù Suicida Studentesca”, and prepared their second full length "Dalla Nascita". These last three recordings, have been made with the collaboration of the sound master Camelio Cripta.
Labels:
Experimental
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Noise
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Sludge
Video: FareWell Poetry - As True As Troilus (live at Cafe de la Danse in Paris)
Labels:
Ambient
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Experimental
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Post-Rock
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Video
Album: If These Trees Could Talk - Red Forest
Band: If These Trees Could Talk
Album: Red Forest
Label: Science Of Silence Records
Year: 2012
Tracklist
01. Breath Of Life
02. The First Fire
03. Barren Lands Of The Modern Dinosaur
04. They Speak With Knives
05. The Gift Of Two Rivers
06. Red Forest
07. The Aleutian Clouds
08. Left To Rust And Rot
09. When The Big Hand Buries The Twelve
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In relation to their debut, Above the Earth, Below the Sky, there's a lot more inclination and respect to post-metal, as heard in tracks like "Red Forest", or "Left To Rot and Rust", with low and loud bass and rhythm guitar lines, and the melody in lead and harmony screamed out in a violent shriek of a tone. The drum lines feature lots of action on tom, so as not to accentuate a bright splash with cymbals, and instead make deep, percussive resonance more forwardly important, cymbals only coming in when loud breakdowns or choruses are in progression.
The beauty of the orchestration is a mixture of violent forte, quiet buildup, and slow, somber quietude. A song like "They Speak With Knives" has a fantastic mixture of the three, with guitars moaning in the background in order to create an eerie, beautiful air in the piece. Meanwhile, the opener, "Breath Of Life", uses only a low rumbling guitar and deep reverberations in a lead tone that lie in a blatant, ominous semblance that leads beautifully into the dark, haunted milieu beautifully established by "The First Fire". There's something remarkable about the beautiful song transitions that pushes a great record up to a point of excellence, and one of those things is an uninterrupted, flowing listen.
I really wasn't sure what to expect from If These Trees Could Talk. The first record did so much for a debut that I sat staring it down, not knowing what to think. Upon listening, I concede that their sound was changed, one can't deny that. However, I think the healthy divergence is for the better - they left the action-oriented post-rock behind for more turbulent waters, and I feel that the post-metal scene fits them slightly better. And while there are plenty of elements of post-rock that remain, for old If These Trees Could Talk fans and instrumental rock loyalists in general, there's also a broadening that does justice to a wholly expanded fan set as well, enrapturing those that would be listening to something like Beware of Safety or Jesu as well as Moonlit Sailor or Tortoise. The record is a feat, and brings new light to the sound without detracting from the quality, and it's a fantastic sophomore release. - muzikdizcovery.com
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Instrumental
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Post-Metal
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Post-Rock
Album: edPorth & aiRless pRoject - The Other Side Of Chill
Band: edPorth & aiRless pRoject
Album: The Other Side Of Chill
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012
Tracklist
edPorth
01. Right Night Light
02. Make Room
03. Post Love
04. Jammed
05. The Lost Time
aiRless pRoject
06. Drums From Beyond
07. Controlled Noise Bleeding
08. Two Sides - Same Coin
09. Bending Handmade Glass
10. Every Waking Hour
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edPorth
Music from edPorth blends ambient soundscapes, IDM beats and distant dreamy vocals, always designing obsessive melodies and sounds that move between dance loops and electro-ambient backgrounds.
His first album “Saying Vamos and Thinking Let’s go” has been released by Inglorius Ocean netlabel on January 2010.
His last effort, “Key Black”, out on July 2011 has been released by 51beats netlabel.
Bandcamp
aiRless pRoject
Bandcamp
Labels:
Ambient
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Electronic
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IDM
Video: The Ocean - The Grand Inquisitor II (Live In Denver)
Labels:
Post-Metal
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Progressive
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Sludge
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Video
Album: Leech - If We Get There One Day, Would You Please Open The Gates?
Band: Leech
Album: If We Get There One Day, Would You Please Open The Gates?
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012
Tracklist
01. Turbolina
02. Echolon
03. March Of The Megalomaniacs
04. Hands Full Of Hearts, Heart Full Of Stones
05. Anthracite
06. October
07. Gravity Head
08. Amazing Hog
09. Nearly There
10. Endymion
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Leech was formed in 1995 by Marcel Meyer (Guitar, Piano), Urs Meyer (Guitar, Piano) and Serge Olar (Drums). Right from the start the band devoted itself to experimental instrumental music - rhythmic figures are developed and connected with floating melodies - this all fuses in an epic sound landscape where time becomes irrelevant.
Official Site
Myspace
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Labels:
Instrumental
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Post-Rock
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Progressive
Album: Nights Amore - Subscribers Of Death
Band: Nights Amore
Album: Subscribers Of Death
Label: Immortal Frost Productions
Year: 2010
Tracklist
01. We Of The Suffering Kind
02. The Depressive Years (Tribute To Endless Sorrow)
03. Ödesdöd
04. Cutting Close To The Edge (Dedicated To Kurt)
05. Let Me Drown In Suicide
06. When A Child Decides To Die
07. When My Heart No Longer Beats
08. Den Inre Fridens Sällsamma Lugn
09. Age Of Suicide (Bonus Track)
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It’s highly emotional music that draws inspiration from the turmoil of dealing with depression. It’s dark, heavy thoughts and feelings captured in ambient music. Musically the project is influenced by all forms of depressive music.
Subscribers of Death is the debut album from this emotionally charged project which was released in 2010 by Immortal Frost Productions.
Labels:
Dark Ambient
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Drone
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Experimental
EP: The Canyon Observer - Chapter I: The Current Of Her Ocean Brings Me To My Knees
Band: The Canyon Observer
Album: Chapter I: The Current Of Her Ocean Brings Me To My Knees
Label: Kapa Records
Year: 2012
Tracklist
01. Part I: The Lingering Scent Of Her Divinity
02. Part II: Your Feathers Infect My Scars, The Ones That You Gave Life To
03. Part III: Our Universe, Written In Blood
04. Part IV: My Will
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Labels:
Post-Metal
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Sludge
Album: Rogue Sounds - Jupiter And Beyond The Infinite
Band: Rogue Sounds
Album: Jupiter And Beyond The Infinite
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012
Tracklist
01. Wormsign
02. 25th Parallel North
03. Mission To The Sun
04. Solar Nebula
05. Continuum Storm
06. LV-426
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Labels:
Electronic
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Instrumental
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Post-Rock
News: Amenra
C - O - R
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pic. by s.temmerman
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News
EP: Ancre - Nacre
Band: Ancre
Album: Nacre
Label: Echo Canyon Records
Year: 2012
Tracklist
01. Narval
02. Monotype Requin
03. Octopus
04. Trois Mâts
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Album: Aussitôt Mort - Nagykanizsa
Band: Aussitôt Mort
Album: Nagykanizsa
Label: Destructure
Year: 2012
Tracklist
01. La Ride Du Lion
02. Sur Un Radeau, Des Cannibales
03. Une Défaite A La Piaule
04. Supraliminaire
05. La Bourse Ou La Vie
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Labels:
Post-Hardcore
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Screamo
Album: Sun Devoured Earth & Wounder - Split
Band: Sun Devoured Earth & Wounder
Album: Split
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012
Tracklist
Sun Devoured Earth
01. Reflection
02. How Hard We've Tried
03. Bright Days
04. So Dark, So Cold
05. Empathy
06. Things That Make Life Worth It
07. Flowers
Wounder
08. Leave Me Swinging
09. Filth
10. Cleaner
11. End of My Days
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Gloomy dream pop with a hint of post-punk, post-rock, shoegaze and black metal.
Bandcamp
Wounder
Depressive black metal project from the UK.
Bandcamp
Labels:
Black Metal
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Dark Ambient
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Post-Rock
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Shoegaze
Album: North Atlantic Drift - Canvas
Band: North Atlantic Drift
Album: Canvas
Label: Polar Seas Recordings
Year: 2012
Tracklist
01. From The Static
02. Waiting In The Afterglow
03. Albatross
04. Luminous
05. Cloud Atlas
06. North Atlantic Drift
07. Asleep In The Waiting Room
08. Mark My Words
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Labels:
Ambient
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Electronic
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Experimental
Album: Arms Of Ra - Unnamed
Band: Arms Of Ra
Album: Unnamed
Label: Swarm Of Nails
Year: 2012
Tracklist
01. Afterwards
02. I Have The Right To Erase Myself
03. Personnalite Décharnee
04. Unnamed
05. Write My Name And Forget It
06. To Be Acknowledged Is To Exist
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"Unnamed" contains six independents songs which are all linked by the same story of a man trying to deconstruct himself and disappear from society.
If the music from this Parisian band lost in weight, it certainly gained in rage and sharpness. The voice has taken much more importance. The compositions got also much more depths, demonstrating the hours of reflections to mold these songs, and give birth to an album that’s more difficult to listen to than their first, while still keeping their own vision that goes beyond their influences.
Labels:
Post-Metal
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Sludge





















