Sondrous - Something Like Serenity (2018) EN

Sondrous is only a duet made of Gideon Lamprecht and Jaimie Hull from RSA. I'm writing "only" because their music sounds so complexly and otherworldly that it can be hardly believed that it's created by two people only. Their debut called Something Like Serenity is filled with a unique atmosphere that can't be described by words.

To say that Soundrous make dream pop or shoegaze is a terrible understatement. Their music incorporates also elements of ambient, epic post-rock, relaxing music, acoustic music, psychedelic music, dark music... Everything is already visible in the title track Something Like Serenity, this combination of delicate sounds of guitar strings and double airy vocal with elevated fragments in which the soul of the most bombastic post-rock music echoes together with vocals sounding like choirs of ghosts. This is Sondrous.

The most important though is that the synth passages in You Are The Cosmos, delicate backing vocals in Shelter, post-rock might in In Purity, everything makes a coherent, well-thought-through whole, although creating the album from to the release took only five months. This makes Something Like Serenity one of the best albums of the year in my personal ranks.

Something Like Serenity costs whatever you want to pay.

Check: Something Like Serenity

Country: RSA

Genre: epic/acoustic dream pop

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