Album: Twilight In Versailles - Capsule

Band: Twilight In Versailles
Album: Capsule
Label: Self Released
Year: 2013








Tracklist
01. Winter's Passed
02. Dragonfly
03. Sky Train
04. White Wall
05. National
06. Paper Nights
07. EMD
08. Azul
09. Gyroscope
10. Canvas
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Twilight In Versailles is a collaborative group led by Ryan Moser. The album credits Guido Ghedin on a handful of drum tracks, as well as Jason Downer. Moser, however, handles a majority of the workload on Capsule. The album is just under an hour of tepid yet capacious post-rock in the vein of Riceboy Sleeps and This Will Destroy You’s Tunnel Blanket.

The album opens with ‘Winter’s Passed,’ which begins with reverberating, layered keyboard. It gently leads the listener into outer space with heavy, distorted drums and echoing guitars. The whole song sounds like a farewell to earth, leading to an interstellar day trip throughout the galaxy. As evidenced on ‘Winter’s Passed’ and the rest of the album, Moser is not afraid to let passages and themes draw out for as long as they need to. ‘Winter’s Passed’ is nearly nine minutes long and despite its repetitive nature, it never really seems to let up. It is an ideal opening track for the album that follows.

The next track, ‘Dragonfly,’ is much shorter than ‘Winter’s Passed,’ but it further evidences Moser’s willingness to allow instrumental themes to freely dictate the length of his songs. ‘Dragonfly’ is a track built on a bass guitar progression that leads into plucked guitar. The following tracks build on this motif, allowing a particular instrument to steer each song in a unique direction.Capsule patiently advances through ten songs with their own individual motifs, yet there are times when the album seems to meander without a unified direction. 

The second to last track, ‘Gyroscope,’ comes close to bringing together everything that has occurred on Capsule up to that point. It wealthily combines the album’s numerous themes into a cogent farewell. The last track, ‘Canvas,’ reaches for the same heights as ‘Winter’s Passed,’ but Moser seems to lose control of the drums as they fracture off into space.

The whole album has a sense of deeply felt melancholy running throughout it, yet there is a sense of detachment as well. It is this dichotomy that, amongst other things, makes Capsule the successful debut it is. If humans had the capacity and means to visit other galaxies or solar systems, Capsule would likely be the soundtrack to these journeys. The album bodes very well for Twilight In Versailles’ future.

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Single: Collapse Under The Empire - Sacrifice / Low

Band: Collapse Under The Empire
Album: Sacrifice / Low (Single)
Label: Finaltune Records
Year: 2014








Tracklist
01. Sacrifice (Single Version)
02. Low (Bonus Track)
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Collapse Under The Empire is an instrumental/post-rock band from Hamburg, Germany. The lineup consists of Martin Grimm (guitars & drums) and Chris Burda (keys/synthesizer & drums). They formed in 2007 and released their debut album Systembreakdown (2009) on their own. 

Most of the songs are alternating between electro-bleeps and powerful guitar explosions; it’s both disturbing and seductive. As with Collapse Under The Empire’s debut EP “Paintball“ they’ve succeeded their specific post-rock sound, combining epic guitars with chilled electronic elements and a portion melancholic mood. 

In one year’s time they have self-released their debut LP “Systembreakdown”. It displays acute instrumental sensibility, using pianos and synths with guitar-battering crescendos. “Systembreakdown” may only be about 40 minutes long with no nine-minute epic, but it packs a lot of beauty and emotion. 

Nevertheless Collapse Under The Empire stick to their own style and do not want to emerge as a knock-off. With their mixture of instrumental post-rock they are trying to make a cut above the uniform pulp and put their own stamp on it.

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Single: Selenites - Hedoniste

Band: Selenites
Album: Hedoniste (Single)
Label: Artyempty
Year: 2014








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01. Hedoniste
02. Hedoniste (Almeeva Remix)
03. Hedoniste (Extreme Precautions Remix)
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Selenites is a french five-piece band. They play loud and atmospheric post-metal. Tons of DIY shows across Europe with bands such as Baroness, Envy, Monarch!, Misery Signals, Anything But Yours, The Number Twelve Looks Like You, The Rodeo Idiot Engine, Celeste, As We Draw, Birds In Row, Plebeian Grandstand, Have Heart, Year Of No Lights and others.

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EP: Light Veins - Wasteland

Band: Light Veins
Album: Wasteland EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2014








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01. Prologue
02. Wasteland
03. Absence
04. Looking Glass
05. Epilogue
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Light Veins is an independent experimental artist from Sydney, Australia, focusing on post-rock, progressive rock and ambient styles to create a unique sound. Since beginning in late 2012, he has explored many different genres in the hope to find his own sound and create an experience for the listener, finally settling within his unique blend of influences.

He has now released his debut EP "Wasteland", a unique blend of influences which aims to give the listener a full experience, a complete experience.

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Album: Bear The Mammoth - Yamadori

Band: Bear The Mammoth
Album: Yamadori
Label: Self Released
Year: 2014







Tracklist
01. Cloverlea
02. What’s Yours Was Mine Is Never Leaving
03. The Bonding Leech
04. Glycine
05. Hieronymus Bosch
06. Molly
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Bear The Mammoth is a progressive/post-rock band from Melbourne, Australia that formed in 2009. The band consists of 4 members, James Kershaw and Ben Sharpe on guitars, Stephan Evans on bass, and Chris Lobo on drums.

The band have recorded an EP called "In Absence" that was produced and mastered in 2012 by Nao Anzai and "Yamadori" is their debut album released in 2014.

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Album: The Echelon Effect - Pacific

Band: The Echelon Effect
Album: Pacific
Label: Self Released
Year: 2014








Tracklist
01. Two Continents
02. Visitors On The Bow Wave
03. North
04. Monterey
05. Watching Over The Headland
06. As The Land Sleeps
07. Cutting The Bay
08. Under The Golden Gate
09. The Rest Of Our Lives
10. Garden Highway
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The Echelon Effect came to life amid the long winter nights of February 2009, born from a burning desire to fall in love with music again. It started with a laptop and an idea: write a track, and make it huge. But one track became four, an EP that needed an audience. The tracks were posted on MySpace. And people began to listen.

"Panama is gone, heading north-west then north into the Pacific, tired and looking for a new home.

The Final Voyage. 

"We'll tell the truth, and keep it deep inside, and if you keep the sound, I'll fall by your side".

Pacific is the second part of a double album, Recorded and mixed through 2013/14 in London UK - Sacramento USA. 

Part 1 "Atlantic" was released November 2013 and can be bought at name your own price 

Thanks for your support, this is all I do. "

Dave x

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Album: Alexander DeLarge - Vista Point

Band: Alexander DeLarge
Album: Vista Point
Label: Self Released
Year: 2014








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01. Paper Plane (with Alice Goldstein)
02. Check Your Pulse
03. You Will Not Avoid
04. Untrodden Worlds
05. Someday
06. Mystical Dream
07. Take Me Anywhere
08. Those Days Are Gone
09. Keep On
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Alexander DeLarge is an electronic / neoclassical project based in Russia and "Vista Point" is his second album.

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Album: Wess Meets West - Live At Riverworks

Band: Wess Meets West
Album: Live At Riverworks
Label: Self Released
Year: 2014








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01. Moon Under Water (Live)
02. Stealing From Overseas / Chandeliers (Live)
03. We Marvel At Man's Machines (Live)
04. They Burned New England To The Ground (Live)
05. The Bearing Sea (Live)
06. Deadlock Arms (Live)
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Lazy genre classifications are frighteningly stunted when describing Wess Meets West. A simple “post-rock” label is a tepid disservice that waters down the aesthetic drive and critical intent. Wess Meets West move beyond any number of noisy “post-rock” contemporaries in an attempt to harness a deeper narrative, one imbued with both history and odyssey. It’s fitting then that Wess Meets West should call New England home, a coastal hub exposed to the elements and ripe with historic consequence. Whether on record or live, Wess Meets West consistently reaches the memorable while driving toward the intangible. Layers of ambient guitars, mirrored harmonies, swelling lows, and textured percussion mix with found sounds and electronics to create a density of sound that is otherworldly. Their intense, visceral performances appear as a struggle, a messy tug-of-war between the artist and the unconquerable eternals of time: an unending sea, an immobile mountain, an ageless forest and a constant wind pitted against the unwavering human will to persevere. In this, Wess Meets West is striving for something more: to bottle the primordial. In this quest, they refuse to shy away from the grandiose. Their compass is always pointed at something larger. On Chevaliers and When The Structures Fail Us, this purpose is harnessed with audacity and demonstrates a confidence to tackle an enduring scale that most bands—of any level—would be discouraged to dirty their hands with. 

Wess Meets West began in 2005. The first four EPs "You Women..." (2007), "How To Kill A Mammoth"(2008), “A Collection of Explosions and Death Threats” (2009), and “The Sun The Moon The Master (2009) all explore different areas of electronics and post-rock. Wess Meets West have also collaborated with John Nolan,(Taking Back Sunday) on his Collaboration Experiment, "The Bering Sea".

Live At Riverworks was recorded May of 2013 Live all in one room at the Recording Studio Riverworks in Dobbs Ferry NY. The live release shows a more raw side of the band. It showcases early versions of songs from When The Structures Fail Us and new live versions of older songs.

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