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Record Of The Week

Silian Rail – Each/Other

This release from Silian Rail is some of the best music that I have heard for a long time. The two members of this band, Robin and Eric really know how to craft songs. It is post/math/experimental-rock, but overall it is just incredibly put together. This is their third and possibly best release to date. I played the opening two songs on my show, Young Mood then The Beast. I had a hard time picking what songs to play, such is the quality of the music. 8 songs just coming in at over 40mins. Contrast the complexity of the track Glass House to the intricate sound of A Nothing Summer and you appreciate how good the musicianship is and the versatility of these guys. it would be easy to keep it all uptempo but they also like the slower end of the spectrum. There is also viola, played by Dina Maccabee on a few of the tracks which just add to the sound.

All in all it is a great release and will definitely be in my top 10 releases list of 2012.

Members :

Robin Landy– guitar

Eric Kuhn– drums, guitar, synth, piano

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Dina Maccabee– viola

Record Of The Week

Ghosts Wear Clothes – Threads

Ghosts Wear Clothes are a post-rock band from Nottingham, thats how they describe themselves on their Bandcamp site and on their Facebook page they describe the sound as post-electronica weirdness. Both these descriptions are not far away from the truth. This debut album was two years in the making, it has a nice sound to it, you can tell they took a lot of time over the sound and what they wanted it to sound like.

There are seven tracks on the album running at 53 minutes in total with track ranging from just under 3 minute tracks to just over 13 minute long. The sound is cinematic and very haunting at times,  beautiful melodies accompanied with soundscapes in the background, there are lots of layers to the music and they build on top of one another. The musicianship is first class, keys, guitars, drums and whatever else these guys play on the record. This is first class post-rock/electronica/ambient, the music does open out occasionally and explodes with great effect then they bring it back down to a more gentler sound.

In summary it is an excellent debut record from this trio and this is an album that should be in your record collection.

Two years is a long time to make a record, heres hoping their next release won’t take that long.

Members :

Iain Anderson: Guitars, Bass, Video Editing

Wain Evans: Bass, Guitars, Synths

James Neep: Keys, Bass, Guitars, Samples

Record Of The Week

Crisopa – Biodance

Biodance is the much anticipated debut album from Madrid (SP) based electronic musician Crisopa. A densely layered album squeezing inspiration from electronic music sub-generes such as IDM, dub-step, post-rock, nu-gaze, and ambient while remaining cohesive, ever evolving and remarkably danceable. Anyone having seen Crisopa live undoubtably knows they were eventually coerced into moving their bodies by the ebb, flow and trajectory of his music. And Biodance is no different, however it is not all about moving your body. A quick look inside the CD case reveals the motivation behind the album: Biodance “is a system of self-development that uses music, movement and positive feelings to deepen self-awareness”. Whether he’s talking about his own self-awareness our ours, that just about sums the album up. Crisopa just wants you to loose yourself in the moment and Biodance is the perfect soundtrack for getting lost within.

Crisopa is the name in which Madrid based Santiago Lizón has chosen to release his music under. This project Of Lizón’s first saw the light of day in 2005, when all his influences of that time, IDM, shoegaze, post-rock and classical musics shaped his output into a more coherent creative entity. Crisopa has evolved in parallel with the netlabel scene of Madrid, as Lizón has released several quality works on netlabels such as Plataforma-ltw, Persona-isla, Add-sensor and Escala before signing with stateside imprint n5MD. Crisopa’s music has been described as blissful, dense, melodic and emotive. In it, the layers of guitars, pads, voices and intricate rythms are combined to frame a particular travel from one landscape to another. This is done by Lizón’s adeptness in displaying nostalgia, hope, transcendence, and melancholy all with a sense of confidence and humility. More recently Lizón’s music has been further shaped by his musical contributions to short-films and documentaries in his native Spain.

Record Of The Week

Dumbsaint – Something That You Feel Will Find It’s Own Form

Review to follow

Record Of The Week

Labirinto – Kadjwynh

Labirinto release the follow up to their highly acclaimed album Anatema. It is in the form of a 4 track EP. It is called Kadjwynh and its a great release. Anatema consisted of 6 tracks all greater than 10mins in length, this four track EP only has one track that hits the 10min time. It kicks off with the very brief track ‘Daemones’ which serves as a moody drone/dark ambient dramatic introduction which leads into the next track called Tuira, this track develops from a guitar based to sublime violin sounds towards the end, with subtle piano playing in the background. The next track Piam Ket starts off in a very rhythmic way with drums pounding and accompanied by guitar. The track quickly builds up pace with big guitars in the forefront, but it returns to those rhythmic drums occasionally, and there is an ambient interlude towards the end which just gives this track a great sense of depth and variety of sound. The EP closes with the 10minute track Cairo, this is Labirinto at their finest. Lots of amazing strings and ambient sounds before taking us on to the next part of the song. This is a fantastic EP and well worth getting a hold of. Labirinto seem to have a style all of their own, and it is also a sound that has you wanting to hear more. That more will have to come in the form of their next release. Hopefully that won’t be too far away.

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Record Of The Week

The American Dollar – Awake In The City

Review to follow

Record Of The Week

What The Blood Revealed – Harbour Of Devils

What The Blood Revealed are a four piece instrumental Post-rock/Post-metal band from Irvine in Scotland.

Band Members :

scott – guitar
gav – bass
alan – drums
stuart – guitar

This is their first full release, they had previously released a couple of EP’s, this debut full length is released on the Field Records label.

The album clocks in at just over 52 minutes spread across 7 tracks, with no track shorter that 6 minutes, well one is 5.59 long. It has its post-rock moments mixed with post-metal moments. All in all they have a great sound and really good musicianship. I don’t have any favorite tracks, well maybe To Travel Deadly Ground is a bit different to the rest of the tracks, so that may be my favorite by a short neck. And it was the track that I played on the show a few weeks ago. I chose the track Waiting For The Storm for this weeks show as I felt it had all of the elements of their sound to showcase the band. But to be fair I could have played any of the tracks on the album.

I think that What The Blood Revealed will go from strength to strength, and I for one will be keeping tabs on this great band. You should too.