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May 27, 2026 Reviews

Album Review - Growth by Wilderness

Wildernesses are a London-based alternative rock band whose debut album, Growth, was released in March 2026 on Floodlit Records. Opening with Sleepless, a haunting and restrained loop that slowly unfolds through warm guitar tones, overlapping harmonies, and carefully layered counter-melodies. There’s a sense of a weight being carried, before we gradually open into something more hopeful and purposeful. We feel that tension between heaviness and release as an emotional thread running throughout

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Jan 18, 2026 Reviews

For All the Days Gone: Sloen Blends Post-Rock and Metal Into Something Special

Sloen is a french multi-instrumentalist that begun his carrer in 2022. The guitar workmanship on Sloen's new release is simply irresistible. Across six tracks, the album demonstrates a masterful touch with instrumental layering, creating deep and immersive melodies that draw you into expansive sonic landscapes. The interplay between dreamy passages and carefully deployed distorted guitar creates a compelling contrast, like being gently awakened from a peaceful escape to confront the full weight

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Sep 15, 2024 Reviews

Disconections by AV Sunset Album Review

AV Sunset are a 4 piece Instrumental post-rock outfit from Northampton, UK. Their debut album 'Disconnections' was released in December 2023. The soundscaping work is excellent - Radar Invisible is like an atherieal dream, with mind sirens calmly whirring. While tldl is wide and tranquil - cautiously rising toward and energetic horizon. Often kick-starting adrift in an eerie well of melancholy and ponder - we are guided through an orientating mire towards a heavy, hammering resolve (Hasselhof

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Aug 21, 2024 Reviews

People Like People Like Them EP Review

L.O.E are a Post-Rock Group from Halifax, Yorkshire People Like People Like Them Released 19.08.2022 After leading us into a wide landscape of fluid guitars and aptly chosen retro vocal samples, explosive breaks and optimistic hooks crash in over heavy drums. Intricate yet subtle guitar layers return as an ethereal mid section bursts into an emotive uplift, melding overdriven harmonies push the progression forward to a resolving climax. The vocal samples that run throughout create a sense of i

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Aug 3, 2024 Reviews

Yndi Halda -

Enjoy Eternal Bliss Review Yndi Halda is a progressive post-rock band from Kent, UK Over a period of over 15 years, they have gained a strong following in both post-rock and alt-folk circuits. Described as "the kind of music which could soundtrack a modern-day love story as easily as it could a mid-century war"... Enjoy Eternal Bliss - from where the name 'Yndi Halda' arises, was released in 2007, when the band were still teenagers. Considered, serene, and delicate soundscapes build up to em

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Jul 17, 2024 Reviews

Album Review: Only Ever - Only Ever

Only Ever: Marfa - Melancholy, Turbulence, and Hope The self-titled album by the band Only Ever, released in February 2024, is the first full-length material from the group consisting of Bill Hamilton, Ivan Beltrán, Kent Evans, Ray Herbert, and Andrew Czornyj. The album contains 6 songs with a total duration of 48 minutes and 8 seconds. Only Ever is characterized by a melancholic and ethereal approach, with songs that mix elements of slowcore, shoegaze, and ambient, using these genres in an ac

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Jun 27, 2024 Reviews

Maestro's Monster - We'll Fight Till Our Guns Are Empty'

Single Review - Maestro's Monster - "We'll Fight Till Our Guns Are Empty' Maestro's Monster is a multi-instrumentalist Post-Rock artist hailing from South East London "We'll fight till our Guns run empty" was released June 2024. Eerie and dissonant tremolo keys lead us in paired with a pulsing synth bass .... watery and spacious synth chords join as we progress with rhythmic Toms building to create a hallowed and suspenseful space. There is a mechanical and almost sinister atmosphere here, a

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Jun 20, 2024 Reviews

Gravity Thieves - Voiceless Infinity

a review of Voiceless Infinity by Gravity Thieves Sunrise opens this album up on a bitter note. The moodiness of the guitar and even the gritty texture of its tone suggest this dawn is one of reckoning. The song itself is quite repetitive, as is the entire album, but somehow makes this an asset. There’s a feeling of dragging out one’s last moments before embracing a cold new reality. The music doesn’t want to move on, and that’s the point. The resistance strengthens as we approach that point o

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Jun 19, 2024 Reviews

The Mantra Discord - The Lost Widow

The Lost Widow wastes no time in establishing what they’re all about. The opening title track’s somber guitars saturated with reverb set the mood. The crushing weight of sorrow is felt in an epic distortion-filled outro, accompanied by a feeling of acceptance that fades into the more reserved and contemplative Reach. Delay in abundance, soaring shimmering overtones, and ethereal atmosphere, this album begins to feel like a journey through the stages of grief. Resting for Oblivion then quickly

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Jun 16, 2024 Reviews

10 Post-Rock Songs You Must Hear

Post-rock is a genre that defies easy categorization, characterized by its use of rock instrumentation for non-rock purposes, favoring texture and atmosphere over traditional song structures. It's a journey into expansive soundscapes, intricate rhythms, and emotional depths. Here, we delve into ten quintessential post-rock tracks that epitomize the genre's breadth and beauty. 1. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - "Sleep" This 23-minute epic from the album Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to He

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Jun 14, 2024 Reviews

Novere - 'Nothing Stays Hidden in Daylight'

Novere - 'Nothing Stays Hidden in Daylight' Novere is a Post-Metal band from London, UK The opening track 'Hydra' hammers in with a chugging riff, heavy growling vocals, well harmonized guitars and a hefty drum beat hall us into this Doom laden, haunting opening track. Tribal-like vocals shape a tense atmosphere as steadily rising rolling drums & thunderous riffs rise toward an anthemic mid section. We reprise the main, bone shaking riff, with heavier vocals - ending on a hum of feedback 'Ap

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Jun 12, 2024 Reviews

Alex Henry Foster - 'The Power of the Heart' Review

Alex Henry Foster (AHF) is a Canadian musician, singer, producer, and composer, best known as the frontman of Juno Awards nominee band Your Favorite Enemies. In November 2018, Foster released a first solo album "Windows in the Sky” (Hopeful Tragedy Records) With shades of: Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Fugazi, Pixies, My Bloody Valentine, Mars Volta, Radiohead, Swans and Nick Cave - Silent Radio best described the group as "Sonic Youth meets Slint at a party hosted by Mogwai!" His new single -

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