Daily Peaks · 27.02.2025
When a band manages to express great emotions with few chords, and when a band manages to switch from progressive and jazzy start to an epic song, and only two minutes have passed, then we know that a top-class album is coming our way in April. The seven-minute appetizer "The Third Sleep" is a compact mixtape whose vocals swing back and forth between Marko Saaresto from "Poets of the Fall" and Feargal Sharkey and which ends with a nearly three-minute instrumental part that would be just as...
Daily Peaks · 24.01.2025
Hailing from Norway and you can feel and listen to an empty and cold landscape, while you´re wearing a fat, warm winter jacket when you´re listening to this dense and atmospheric tune. We lost Toundra in October 2023 and we give "Les Dunes" a warm welcome. This band manage to find the right balance between shredding and the the right chords for creating a well balanced atmosphere of cold and warm. Most Postrock bands are almost proud of their cold and frosty sound. Les Dunes do the split...
Daily Peaks · 16.12.2024
One out of ten Postrock songs manages to stay in my mind, like "After you comes the Flood" performed by Mono. The rest is like a kind of elevator music with some edgy parts within a fairly regulated sound corset. Daxma manage to break through the usual twanging sound with a well balanced sound between distorted and clean, heavy and dreamy and an atmosphere between sadness and aggression. And due this well balanced cocktail of sound, skills and sensations, this nine-minute-monster never gets...
Daily Peaks · 07.11.2024
Ich habe so ein paar Auslöser, einer davon ist der Umgang mit Sprache und auch der Devokalisierung von Slogans, die einseitig von einer Richtung in die andere gerichtet sind. Bei Tiefenrausch kann ich es zum Teil nachvollziehen, da es einige Bands mit diesem Namen gibt und TFNRSH visuell recht einprägsam ausschaut. Nun habe ich einen sehr interessanten Song der Tübinger Band Tiefenrausch vor mir, der spannende 11 Minuten lang wie zwei Minuten vergehen lässt. Sowohl vom Aufbau als auch vom...
Daily Peaks · 28.10.2024
I was already stoked by their first single "End of the World" which was released around August 2024. And after receiving other parts of the puzzle, "The Spiral" finally could be listen in its entirety. What was already apparent back in August is now apparent as a whole; the EP is a coherent acoustic concept album. While the opener "In the Beginning" is a straight and pleasant semi-acoustic song with a huge epic dimension, which is ideal for setting equally epic landscapes to music. This song...
Unknown Pleasures · 02.10.2024
The Australian band "Black Aleph" performs music that should be saved for special moments. It is not background music for everyday things, but for special feelings that intuitively call for this band. I look out of the window here in Munich and there is an autumnal gray veil over colorful leaves, the smell of the last apples and pears are in the air and all these different aspects of autumn are carried on the spheres that this band produces. Personally, I find the video too colorful for this...
Festivals · 29.09.2024
What seemed like a coincidence turned out to be one of the best festivals of the year over the course of the day. Starting with the location on a hiking trail through the rocks and maquis at Le fare Les Oliviers, the quality of the bands, the quality of the sound and the light in the venue and the acquaintances we made during the festival. Click on the button for the report.
Daily Peaks · 17.09.2024
Berlin’s neànder returns with their latest single Ultra, and if you’re not yet familiar with their potent cocktail of post-rock, shoegaze, drone, and sludge, this track is your invitation aural initiation. The band—three guitarists and a drummer, no bass in sight—crafts a rich, immersive sound that’s as heavy as it is atmospheric. Ultra opens with a brooding, slow-burn build, each guitar weaving layers of echoing melodies that creep up on you, until the inevitable sludge-infused wall...
Daily Peaks · 30.08.2024
After the split of the Spanish post-rock band Toundra in 2023, which has not yet been resolved, the throne for their successor is still vacant. The Italian trio "Platonick Dive" has what it takes to be the heir to the throne with the previously released 4th single "'Too Beautiful To Die Too Wild To Live'. As with the 3rd single Faro, the Italians, the only post-rock band I know of, manage to create a lot of atmosphere within a few minutes with very little effort. In contrast to the majority of...
Daily Peaks · 30.07.2024
This album is a product of patience, prompts and presets with AI. I never expected that AI is able to compose such complex songs like the opener "Fractal Fragments". I added some effects via GarageBand, cut some parts out of the song. The whole song sounds like a singing bowl with electric guitars within the orbit. The title "Torn Territory" resulted by the oriental hook inside the track, the lyrics refer to the ancient states in the Middle East Moab (red), Edom (green), Pathros - Upper Egypt -...