Caspian - Tertia (2009)

When drowning in the appropriate sound, you find yourself achieving the same fundamental effects in your soul as coming up for air has on the body. Caspian is that appropriate sound. An instumental rock band from Beverly, Massachusetts formed in Autumn of 2003, these four young men have crafted a sound that is immediately riveting, emotionally devastating, and achingly passionate. Characterized by towering walls of sound, oceanic guitar work and vicious rythymic elements, Caspian is a band that knows how to imbed itself within the part of you that refuses to easily surrender. Take a walk around the bands home co-ordinates and you might find some clues. Tan stretches of sand and the infinite blue horizon of the Atlantic might be bigger influences here than anything else. The jam packed seasonal cycle might explain the bands desire to cover everything from gentle and placid to furious and destructive, all while maintaining a unified musical sensibility, and a fierce sense of adventure . Live in an area like this and you're bound to create something hopeful, inspiring and downright massive. Caspian wants to bring you to places like this and to places we all havent seen yet. Let them take you.

Album

Tertia (2009)

1. Mie
2. La Cerva
3. Ghosts Of The Garden City
4. Malacoda
5. Epochs In Dmaj
6. Of Foam And Wave
7. Concrescence
8. The Raven
9. Vienna
10. Sycamore

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Felix Laband

Felix Laband is an electronic music artist from Pietermaritzburg, South-Africa.

He creates light, emotional, minimalist soundscapes by combining several styles, and samples from classical, jazz and old television recordings overlaid with instrumental performances by himself and other guest artists. His music has been described by his record label as “indie-tronica” and is similar in some ways to Boards of Canada and Iceland’s múm.

Albums

Thin Shoes In June (2001)

1. Single Light
2. Cat On The Fence
3. Lady From The Swamp
4. Run, Alive, Run
5. Under The Carpet
6. Last Sigh
7. Squeaky Toys
8. Thin Use For Shoes
9. Brake Take Make
10. Tomorrow Perhaps...
11. Bats In My Hair
12. Hopeful
13. Step Two
14. Calls From The Wire
15. 4 5 6 And Other Places

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4/4 Down The Stairs (2002)

1. Jesus At The Table
2. Donkey Rattle
3. Down The Stairs
4. Early In The Morning
5. My Sisters Pulse
6. Windy Windows
7. Wilddog
8. Blue Crack Twos
9. 1984
10. Sleepwalking
11. Underwater Puddles
12. This Is That
13. Hopscotch
14. Ants And Feet
15. Rain Can
16. Girl In The Well
17. Sexaphobe
18. Genaro Plays

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Dark Days Exit (2005)

1. Whistling In Tongues
2. Miss Teardrop
3. Dirty Nightgown
4. Falling Off A Horse
5. Sleeping Household
6. Crooked Breath
7. Red Handed
8. Black Shoes
9. Radio Right Now
10. Minka (And The Notes After)

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Tiny Masters Of Today

Tiny Masters of Today are an American indie punk rock band, consisting of teen sibling duo Ivan (born February 21, 1994) and Ada (born March 4, 1996) both from Brooklyn, New York.

In the band both members play guitar however Ivan also plays bass and drums. Ada plays keyboards, bass and drums. The duo first began playing music in 2005 and released their debut single in July 2006 on UK indie Tiger Trap.

The band signed to Mute Records and released their debut album ‘Bang Bang Boom Cake’ in August 2007. Brand new album ‘Skeletons’ is set for release in the UK on the 1st June.

My Humble Opinion

For Chrissake, these children are 13 and 11!! And they really rock! Omg I feel like I'am an overgrown imbecile ;(

Albums

Bang Bang Boom Cake (2007)

1. K.I.D.S.
2. Stickin' It To The Man
3. Hey, Mr. Dj
4. Disco Bomb
5. Hologram World
6. Pictures
7. Radio Riot
8. Trendsetter
9. Book Song
10. Texas
11. Bushy
12. End Of My Rope
13. Tooty Frooty (Clarke's Dream Song)

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Skeletons (2009)

1. Drop The Bomb
2. Two Dead Soldiers
3. Skeletons
4. Pop Chart
5. Real Good
6. Big Stick
7. Monkey In The Middle
8. Big Bass Drum
9. Ghost Star
10. Understandable Honesty
11. Abercrombie Zombie

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Years Of Rice And Salt

Years of Rice and Salt is a 5-piece instrumental rock / folk band based in London, United Kingdom. They were formed in Summer ‘08 and released their debut EP entitled Service Bell EP on 31st January 2009.

The EP is a themed collection of songs navigating the timeline of a shipwreck through music.

My Humble Opinion

This is a deep, 'oceanic' beauty, this music lulls you to sleep like some giant calm waves, holding you gently but not letting go. And the vocals are like sad siren's singing putting you in some kind of trance. Taking into account this is the band's first album, that's definetely a mighty start and I can't wait for more. Marvellous, love from the first song.

Album

Service Bell EP (2009)

1. Plankton
2. Splendid Isolation
3. (Rearranging) Deckchairs
4. Occasional Flashes Of Warmth

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A. Armada

Instrumental post-rock from Athens, GA. Shares members with Cinemechanica and Maserati.

On Anam Cara, the bands first proper record, A. Armada weaves its sound through ringing guitars dipped in echo and a rhythm section that serves more as propellant than mere support. The pieces shift from somber genteelness to intense consideration to soft cradling. This isn’t music to conquer the world by; this is music to conquer oneself with. But if you ask the band about this they’ll probably give you a blank stare. And that’s, really, the whole point. In making music for themselves they’ve inadvertently made it for you.
A. Armada distinguishes itself from its peers by possessing an intangible Southernism which renders its intensity more introspective than bombastic. 
-Gordon Lamb, Flagpole Magazine

Athens, Georgia has given birth to its newest musical prodigies, A. Armada. The instrumental quartet uses an incendiary marriage of weaving guitars and pounding drums to create their brand of music. 
-CMJ Music News 

Album

Anam Cara (2008)

1. The Dam Was Split But The City Was Saved
2. The Moon Shifts The Sea, The Sea Shapes The Shore, The Shore Shakes The Sand, The Sand Sinks
3. Fall-triumph
4. Into Days & Nights & Years & Months
5. If Only You Knew What The Lost Soldiers Did To Me

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The Tumbled Sea

The Tumbled Sea is a one man project by Sam Lee from Boston, Massachusetts. The Tumbled Sea was once Mr.Mumbles, and sometimes still is. Sam Lee started writing music being still a high school student. Recording in his living room, he employed a medley of musical instruments including guitars, pianos, synthesizers and various toy instruments. The first album came out unsigned although some handmade cds were distributed among friends. The second album Melody/Summer came out in 2009 on Futurerecords music label. 

My Humble Opinion

Wonderfully beautiful  minimalistic piano compositions. 

Albums

Songs By The Tumbled Sea (2008)

1. 97202
2. Walking
3. Emily's Song
4. Children Building This Rainman Out Of Snow
5. A Song For Staying In
6. Growing Recognition Of The Genius Of Birds
7. Sleeps
8. May
9. We're Turning Into Regular People
10. Doves
11. Love Song
12. The People You Never Knew About
13. Untitled (For Piano And Violin)
14. Untitled(For Piano)

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Melody/Summer (2009)

1. Summer II
2. Summer V 
3. Summer III
4. Summer IV
5. Melody I
6. Melody II
7. Melody III
8. Ø 
9. \ 
10. Melody IV
11. Summer VI

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Troubles - Wolf (2008)

Troubles is a UK-based ambient post-rock instrumental band formed in 2005. The members of the band are Joel Clifford, Sam Herlihy, Michael Hibbert, Simon Jones, Mike Siddell and Jon Winter.

The band was formed towards the end of 2005, with recording taking place from September 2005 and the band's MySpace page being created on November 9, 2005. Troubles was originally a side project of Hope of the States, of which Herlihy, Hibbert, Jones and Siddell were members. Following the dissolution of Hope of the States in August 2006, Troubles continued and has become the primary project of the four former members.

Troubles were first heard in February 2006. Three tracks were uploaded to a specially created page on The Halfway Home, a Hope of the States fansite, entitled Undertunnel/Overtunnel, Troubles Angels - Worry and Rabbits In The Trees. Dubbed the Troubles Musick Sampler, the tracks quickly began circulating amongst the Hope of the States community, despite them being removed from the website soon after first appearing due to intervention from Sony BMG (Hope of the States' label at the time). Further tracks were added occasionally to the band's MySpace page.
The concerts revealed a much more 'post-rock' sound to the band, quite different from the more ambient soundscapes heard on the demos released beforehand. All the members of the band wear white onstage while similarly-coloured projections play behind them.

Most members of the band play guitar, occasionally reverting to keyboard or music box, while Simon Jones plays the bass and Mike Siddell the violin. In the live shows, Mike Hibbert's brother Marc has played with the band onstage.

As of April 2007 the band are signed to Rough Trade. The album (now titled ‘First’) and the EP (titled ‘Sen’taur’) are available online and in Rough Trade shops, with a DVD rumoured to be in the works.

My Humble Opinion

Really really good and a rare issue. Reminds of The Silver Mt. Zion at some points.

Album

Wolf (2008)

1. Ayala Por las Brujilos
2. Furnace (Redux)
3. Wolf
4. Feverland
5. The Farwest Leader
6. St Paul
7. Glanton Falls
8. Absence, Am Abraham
9. Attica in Twos
10. My Yeshiva

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September Malevolence

Formed in February 2004, September Malevolence is a post-rock band from Gothenburg, Sweden. Their strong melodies and well-performed songwriting earned them a loyal following and the debut album ’Tomorrow We’ll Wonder Where This Generation Gets It’s Priorities From’ was voted the 4th best instrumental release of 2005, in competition with 50 other albums by The Silent Ballet.

After three years of touring, switching members, writing songs, rejecting songs, switching members again, it’s as a band transformed, evolved and with a new almost desperate edge to the music. Witness After This Darkness, There’s A Next long play and you can tell it hasn’t been three years of sitting in the sun.

My Humble Opinion

Is that it's one of the greatest bands ever. Always with me on my player. Great lyrics, atmospheric music.. this band proves that vocals are not outta place in post-rock compositions but when talantely used make them 10 times better.

Albums

Surviving Destinies (2004)

1. On Our Own
2. Surviving
3. September One
4. Destenies'ol Destinies
5. Untitled

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Tomorrow We'll Wonder Where This Generation Gets Its Priorities From EP (2005)

1. Sinister
2. On Our Own
3. Distance, Closure
4. Departure
5. Beaufort 9 and Rising
6. Late Night Episode
7. Nobody Noticed The Fire

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After This Darkness, There's A Next (2008)

1. Who Watches The Warchmen?
2. I Shut Doors And Windows
3. A Notion, I Can't Shake...
4. ...Accidents Happen So Fast
5. Vile Tendencies
6. Moments
7. Brandskar
8. Exxon Valdez
9. The Descent
10. All Lies

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Aesthesys

Aesthesys is a project of russian musician Nickholas Koniwzski, founded in 2007.

The name is derived from the abbreviation AESTHE (An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything) and it looks like misspelled word ‘aesthetic’. Aesthesys’ music can be described as instrumental post-rock with ambient and neoclassical influences.

My Humble Opinion

Deep, melancholic, enchanting, for me this is undoubtedly the musical discovery of the month. I never appreciated russian post-rock scene too high for it's unprofessional approach, lack of depth and thouhghtfullness, but THIS is what I can call an exception. Aesthesys's music stunned me from the first notes and made me proud of having such a compatriot.

Philisophical reflections wonderfully turned into music.

Albums

Demo (2008)

1. Siren's Song
2. Landscape With A Yellow House
3. Where The Truth Lies
4. Once You're Born You Can No Longer Hide
5. Don't Forget He Is Going To Defeat His Shadow
6. Scrolling In Mind Images Of The Past Day Before Falling Asleep
7. Dreams Are Only Real As Long As They Last
8. Sandcastles
9. I Feel The Life Is Sorrowful And Unbearable Though I Can't Flee Away Since I Am Not A Bird
10. Elegy
11. Identity And Difference
12. Prometheus Brings Fire To Mankind
13. Ancient Cities As Targets For Our Nuclear Missiles
14. A Philosophical Question Concerning The Purpose And Significance Of Human Existance

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An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything [EP] (2008)

1. There Is Hope, But Not For Us
2. Paths Are Made By Walking
3. I Am Free, Tha Is Why I'm Lost
4. Jacques-Yves Cousteau And The Deepest Surface
5. At Five In The Afternoon

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Cold Light Of Skies That Never Existed (2009)

1. Light Slivers Of Memory
2. Introduction To The Third Crusade
3. Chrysopoeia
4. The Watchman Eats It's Own Tail
5. Decipimur Specie Recti
6. The great Pyramids Next To Your House
7. All That Fall
8. Time Is An Illusion

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Escape The Day

Escape The Day was a post-rock band from Berlin, Germany formed in year 2003; who took influence from acoustic and ambient music.

Their unreleased album “Ghostless” (2005) was put on hold due to the suicide of band member Christoph Florian Rehse (1979-2005).

After year 2005 Escape The Day has stopped, and is forever dedicated to the love and memory of Florian. Their work was described as “Great music for lonely walks, hangovers or just falling asleep.”

My Humble Opinion

Once I found muself humming a beautiful melody and wondered what could it be. And then realized that it could be nothing but some song from Escape The Day's album I had listened to just the other day, and which didn't impress me somehow. Usually  it takes me many listens to memorize a post-rock melody since they are not that catchy. That's why I was so surprised and gave this band the second listen. Then the third. It's definetely worth it.

Albums

Ghostless (2005)

1. Hallways
2. Ghostless
3. Days
4. The Hour Undone
5. If I Told You
6. Still
7. This Wave's Length
8. Last Words

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The Creation Of This Epic Blog

This is a historical date. Sometime people are gonna walk in the streets with flags this day. Each year. And loads of beer.