Liverpool Sound City 2012
#Post-rock
First Look
Cavallo / Sleep With Wires // Almost Colossus
Brooklyn's Cavallo specialise in instrumetal rock that purrs, twinkles, then bears its teeth, fur flying, whilst retaining a harmonic core. The twin guitars work in telepathic partnership, complimenting each other even when the songs are at...
Album Review
The Pirate Ship Quintet / Rope For No-Hopers
Atmospheric post-rockers The Pirate Ship Quintet have been quiet as a mouse since the release of their excellent self-titled EP back in 2005. Like most good things, new album 'Rope For No-Hopers' was well worth the wait, as the boys from...
Album Stubble - Unsigned
Bridges of Königsberg / The Five Colors
BoK (Excuse me if I call the band BoK) sound like a diet-Godspeed without the apocalyptic grandeur and classical feel, with a touch of 'Hardcore Will Never Die...'-era Mogwai and some slight echoes of ...Trail of Dead, among others.
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Album Review
Sleep Party People / We Were Drifting on a Sad Song
A gentle piano melody drifts into life, an eerie melancholy singing voice joins in, strings enter to accompany the keys. They toy with each other before the strings and plucked chords take over and that peculiar vocal can be heard again. As it moves...
Album Review
Good Night & Good Morning / Narrowing Type
Good Morning & Good Night have recorded their first full length album “Narrowing Type” in the comfort of homes in Chicago and Milwaukee. There is a real sense of a well-mposed and delicately ethereal album submerged in a foggy...
