Author: Tritan Chan

Quintessential Post Rock for All Tastes

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John Ward – “What is it Now”

While we typically prefer instrumental post rock, Ward swayed us to change our mind. For “What is it Now”, the artist provides a sweeping sound that is only made better by his ethereal vocal parts. The track is a bit of mindfulness; a reprieve from a world burning with doubt. What Ward does so well is crafting a building space of peace and intention, while providing a sonic space to dream and even hope. We were reminded of 30 Seconds to Mars when we hear this track and cannot wait to hear more.

Flying Gravity – “The Rain is Coming”

Inspired by a coming storm, “The Rain is Coming” is a sweeping piece of sonic creativity. The artist offers a metaphoric soundtrack for the “storms” of our lives, while offering a small piece of shelter. The compelling bass offers a throughline sound in which the drums and guitars thrive. If we were to expose listeners to one track to properly showcase the style of post rock, it would be this one. The track soars and impresses.

The Ninth Wave’s new single and video, ‘Maybe You Didn’t Know’

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Scottish indie rock/new wave band The Ninth Wave has dropped a new video single Maybe You Didn’t Know.

The Glasgow-based band’s new video is centered around car racing with the band members standing on blocks, dressed in car-racing uniforms as race cars drive in circles around them. The track is a mix of electro pop with intense percussion and under-stated keys that allow Haydn Park-Patterson’s vocals and chorus to blossom. 

“The song is about finding comfort in the uncomfortable and being able to hide yourself behind an overbearing and engulfing undefined fear.”

Regressive Left’s funky, hard-hitting new single, ‘Cream Militia’

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The relatively new U.K. indie rock band, Regressive Left, returns with a kick-ass new single that follows an impressive streak for the band since they premiered last year.

The booming, banging new single, “Cream Militia” features a hard-hitting bassline and spooky, aggressive dance beats coupled with and trippy synth/electro pop effects (from Delia Derbyshire) that lend to the overall ambience of the track.

Earlier this year, the band dropped the equally intense, hook-friendly and dance-inspiring single, “Eternal Returns”.

The band is slated to perform at U.K. fests like End Of The Road and Wild Paths.

Artist to Watch: London’s art-pop project Zoee

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Zoee is the art-pop project of London-based musician Harriet Zoe Pittard.

“No Great Endings” is a fairly straightforward song that feels a bit bent and warped by the strange gravity of Zoee’s voice, which sounds something like a depressed faerie. You mainly hear this in a keyboard part that seems to wobble like jello at some points and in others more like a crude caricature of a harp.

But it’s there in the rest of the arrangement too, which moves with a solid groove but projects a dazed and detached vibe. The lyrics are full of poetic descriptions in the verses, but the chorus is quite plain and direct: “Where to put this pain? / It’s always the same.”

The emphasis on pragmatism is interesting – she doesn’t sound like she wants to bury it or deny the feeling, but is jaded enough to half-expect more is on the way.

It’s less like an expression of denial and more like imagining a plan to carefully catalog it all in some kind of emotional library.

Buy it from Bandcamp.

Matthew at Fluxblog