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Arctic Plateau is the missing piece of today’s post-rock, indie/shoegaze puzzle we were looking for. Founded in 2006 by Gianluca Divirgilio, the band released the first full-length album in 2009, followed by a collaborative album in 2011 with Les Discrets. We have been taking a deep look into the band’s […]
Post-Rock/Shoegaze trio Tӧrzs from Budapest, Hungary takes their name from Hungarian terminology that connects ideas that reference persistent evolution coupled with coherence and continued clarity of conceptual vision. This motif assumes direct meaning on their upcoming third record Tükor, which sees them initiate a shift from the inclusion of vocals […]
Tours-based post-rock/shoegaze two-piece FIRST DRAFT announce the release of their mind-blowing new EP “Declines Are Long Gone” on February 19th, 2022 via LyloProd. Bass and drums/vocals… A duo performance as mastered as captivating! Marine Arnoult and Clément Douam of FIRST DRAFT transform sharp sensibility into raw energy, drawing inspiration from post-rock, shoegaze, or brit […]
Italian shoegaze and post-rock project led by Gianluca Divirgilio, Arctic Plateau has just revealed a music video for a brand new track titled ‘Saturn Girl’, which is taken from their third album “Songs of Shame”, due out on December 3rd via Shunu Records. Emerging from an eight-year hiatus, songwriter Gianluca Divirgilio brings his darkest and most introspective thoughts to […]
Mexican-American doomgazers LOW FLYING HAWKS has unleashed the second single ‘Caustic Wing’ taken from their forthcoming third full-length “Fuyu”, which has been slated for release on August 27. We wanted to go overboard with this track, so we did. It all started with this beautiful lick that AAL had kept since 2018, and some chord progressions. Those […]
Mexican-American doomgazers LOW FLYING HAWKS has released the first single ‘Subatomic Sphere’ taken from their forthcoming third full-length “Fuyu”, which will arrive in stores on August 27. “I came up with a perfectly sinister riff and when we got together, AAL started playing with all these ‘shoegazey’ textures”, reveals singer and guitarist EHA. “We knew right there and then […]
What would you do if you knew that anything you could ever meet in life has already happened?It’s like sitting for half an hour in the waiting room at the doctor that just gave you eight minutes to live. ‘Terminus’ is a kind of autobiography of a terminal illness, one […]
Following their 2017 record ‘Sunbirds’, Slowly Building Weapons are back with their new album ‘ECHOES‘. Slowly Building Weapons are a trio from Sydney, Australia, and Omihachiman, Japan. The album ‘ECHOS’ takes a sharp turn away from the sound of their previous effort, which was described as “genre-crushing amazingness. To compare this to anything doesn’t […]
At the beginning of 2018 singer Inga Nelke alongside two guitarists, Thorsten Dohle & Felix Will meet at a dark cave in Cologne Germany. Impressed by the caves reverb, accompanied by a drum machine, they rather accidentally create a sound that sits somewhere between shoegaze, psychedelic, and krautrock, while breathing the DIY spirit of a punk […]
Australian post-metal group Empress has just revealed a music video for “Void Shaped Void”, a new song off their forthcoming second album “Wait ‘til Night”, which is set for release on November 20th via Brilliant Emperor Records. Recorded by Liam Kriz at Ravager Sound and mixed by M. Deslandes, “Wait ‘til Night” sees Empress once again blurring the lines of such diverse musical genres […]