Human Pyramids will release their third album ‘Power Pose’ on Christmas Day – and what a festive treat it is. Released by Three Mile Town worldwide and Ricco Records in Japan, the record might just be Axes man Paul Russell’s cinematic, orchestral super group’s most joyous collection of songs to date. Recorded all over Scotland,…
Massachusetts post-rockers Caspian have made a welcome return with the release of new single ‘Flowers of Light’ ahead of new album ‘On Circles’ on 24 January (Triple Crown Records – pre-order here). Described by guitarist/keyboardist Phillip Jamieson as ‘our attempt to find the intersection between propulsive, relentless energy and a trance like sense of reverie’,…
Brighton/London instrumental prog rockers POLY-MATH have shared their new 15-minute (!) single ‘Sensors in Everything’ ahead of UK and EU tour dates with Body Hound. It’s the first song to feature new member Josh Gesner on keyboards and synthesisers and also the first of an ambitious two-part release for 2020, which the quartet have recorded…
Ahead of their fifth album ‘Vortex’ (out via Superball Music on 27 April), Alberto from instrumental Spanish post-/math-rockers Toundra talked us through five songs that have had an influence on him and his music. Baroness – ‘Board Up The House‘ Pretty obvious one. I always saw Baroness as a band oriented to people who…
Superball Records’ Spanish instrumental act Toundra have released the poignant video for ‘Cobra’, the first song from their forthcoming fifth album ‘Vortex’. The intensity of the math-tinged atmospherics acts as the soundtrack to photographic material covering the real victims of war by Pulitzer Prize winner Manu Brabo and video material from famed Spanish journalist Gonzo. The…
We’ve been big fans of Glagow-based post rockers Dialects for a few years now and were very excited to hear their debut LP ‘Because Your Path is Unlike Any Other’ (available via Through Love Rec on vinyl now) after hearing their phenomenal EPs and watching live performances at the likes of ArcTanGent and Audiotree. Here,…
Words by Joe Booley. As post-rock giants, Sigur Rós are set to take the stage for the second night of their three-day residency of the Eventim Apollo, and the audience are patiently waiting for a night of two halves, both literally and sonically. Steadily taking the stage one by one, the Icelandic trio kick off…
