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Kodaclips is a shoegaze / alternative band founded in 2021, heavily influenced by the second wave of shoegaze, especially by the italogaze scene. They released “Glances”, their debut album with Overdub Recordings on September 23rd. On September 6th 2024 their second album “Gone Is The Day” was released on Sister9 Recordings. […]
After three EPs defining the contours of their aesthetic at the crossroads of influences between dream pop, slowcore, and post-rock, Pam Risourié will release their first full-length album “Days of Distortion”. Taking the form of an underground dive, like a dream breaking apart and echoing along walls of guitars, days of […]
Once we were besotted with post-rock, the genre became the new alternative culture. A form of groundbreaking music that none of us could take the ears and eyes off. For the uninitiated, which included me until I listened to this record, CARVED INTO THE SUN is a California-based instrumental post-rock/progressive […]
HURLENOIR is a French band that has flown beneath many radars since it first started in 2019. As much as a musician as a painter, HURLENOIR is an artist who exploits dark themes to challenge and engage in reflection on the often rugged course of life. With “Achromaria,” the band’s […]
Solitär from Stockholm, Sweden is the solo project by Mikael Tuominen, a multi-instrumentalist known from bands like Kungens Män and Automatism, who was born in Sweden in 1973 by Finnish parents. Mikael Tuominen has been working within a large spectrum of music over the years, ranging from doom metal to avant-garde free […]
Spacey drone/post-rock experimentalists Canadensis present their third album, “The Decades Apart Have Weathered Us Both”, which will be out on 29 July 2022 via the duo’s own publishing venture, Medicine for a Nightmare. The Decades Apart Have Weathered Us Both by Canadensis Canadensis is the duo of D. Fylstra of Folian (ex-Ramprasad, Flood Peak, Drowse, and The Stargazer Lilies) and […]
Portland-based drone/shoegaze/noise project FOLIAN premieres 2nd track ‘Beau Ideal’ from upcoming EP “Mimicking Nothingness”, out on 15 July via the architect D. Fylstra’s own imprint Anima Recordings. Mimicking Nothingness by Folian Formed by the musician D. Fylstra, FOLIAN merges elements of drone, shoegaze, metal, pop, and experimental noise, as well […]
South African post-metal band CONSTELLATIA is now releasing the brand new official music video for the song, ‘The Garden,’ which is taken from the band’s latest EP, “The Language of Limbs.” The video, which was filmed in Cape Town and Johannesburg and was edited by Larissa Johnson, can be seen below. CONSTELLATIA comments: “‘The Garden’ […]
I am a prime example of being caught in a rat race, a cog too much a part of the corporate clockwork. Perhaps that’s why I identify with the timeless concept behind BOG‘s much-anticipated release via Polawa Records on some levels. The EP’s concept stays close and personal to Tim […]
There is no surprise that Asia is one of the most innovative continents related to, well, everything. Their culture and way of perception have become present in the extreme metal genre, too. From shoegaze, post-black, and blackgaze to symphonic elements or D’n’B, they all have been inserted by Asian artists […]