Afformance - Through Walls (2015) EN

“The wind! The fire! The sea! The volcanoes! The animals! The city! The laughter! The cries! The breath! The heartbeat!” - whatever you may think, it’s not fragment of a new movie about the adventures of Captain Planet, it’s a list of the phenomena that inspire the main characters of this post - the post-rocking wizards from Athens, Afformance. Already the first track is a whole story played on guitar riffs, a story of a man who experienced epiphany which led to his act of faith (Actus Fidei) and as a result fell up into the skies. Did it happen when facing death? Or is it something we all experience during our everyday so-called lives? The next songs are equally enigmatic. Cordyceps - a type of fungi that parasite and eventually decompose insects and other small animals, savants - a phenomenon when someone who is mentally challenged is also pure genius in some way (“Rain Man” anyone?) and finally the mysterious Mr Bennet - the only thing I made up from it is Stede Bonnet, a “gentleman pirate” who terrorized the Caribbean Sea on his Revenge in 18th century. Everything here is mysterious but in the end, what would post-rock be without mystery?

Even the band’s name is interesting. Could it mean some kind of mixture of affair and romance? Isn’t it the same? Do they add up to some kind of super-romance everyone dreams of?

Anyway, Afformance dress those mysteries into a beautiful form of guitar post-rock similarly as Explosions In The Sky and Mogwai do. Long, succinct compositions with occasional radio recordings, energetic accelerations and almost disco-like spontaneity (“Dancing Lessons…”). It’s this kind of music that goes through walls, be them the ones between the world and your soul or between you and your irritated neighbours.

Their previous album, “Affection” is available for free, “Through Walls” costs 5 EUR.

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