Silent Whale Becomes A° Dream - Requiem (2017) EN

At the end of the year there emerged one of the biggest candidates for an offstream post-rock album of the year. The Frenchmen of Silent Whale Becomes A° Dream showed us how to create long compositions that can both build tension, inspire with the size of sound and jerk some tears of affection.

The recipe seems to be well-known - long developing tracks with guitar finalisation spiced up with spacious drums and melancholic weeping of strings. Still it has to be done with taste not to bore the audience nor discourage with pomposity. 

SWBAD scored a bullseye as everything on this album sounds about right, each of the long minutes: the filled with dreadful noise ending of "Dies Iræ, Dies Illa", extremely slow "Cor Contritum Quasi Cinis" of full of cinematic ambiance "Recordàre". And yes, Latin language fits post-rock perfectly. And yes, the cover looks as if it wasn't swimming people but at least victims of a shock wave of a nuclear explosion. And yes, the end of "Lacrymósa Dies Illa" sounds like the latter.

"Requiem" costs 9 USD.

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