![]() ![]() This reminds us of acts like Mono (in the middle of their career) and Australian compatriots Tangled Thoughts of Leaving. Take the opening track, “Towers”, for example where Departure Songs might have created wide moments of charged quiet, “Towers” fills its intermissions with tremolo picking and incisive piano. This comes across in a few ways but firstly and mainly in the song structure gone are the longer, more ethereal sprawling passages of Departure Songs, replaced with passages which sound much more urgent. Their upcoming release, Triumph & Disaster, builds on these somber foundations and injects them with an even greater sense of urgency. Its tracks covered the Challenger disaster, the “Bogatyri” (a nickname for the brave divers who gave up their lives to save Europe during the Chernobyl disaster), and, in general, our often doomed attempts to escape/live on the only planet we know. It was certainly forged in the suffocating deluge of personal loss but also touched on human folly, bravery, hope, and cruelty. Take We Lost the Sea‘s previous album for example, Departure Songs. Post-rock, as mentioned above, is often already in-tune to the myriad of ways in which humanity abuses itself. This is simply due to the fact that, you know, things are about to get much, much worse for pretty much everyone living on this planet and it could have been prevented. You can expect a lot of the post-rock bands, especially those who were already in-tune with tragedy and the world around them, to take dark turns in the next few years. ![]()
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