Jambinai - ONDA (2019) EN

The Korean Jambinai made a surprising entrance in Poland thanks to their amazing gig at OFF Festival in 2016. Now the phenomenal Asians are back with one of the candidates for the best post-rock album of the year. While Pillars from the last week's post are front-runners here, ONDA can be the proverbial black horse.

The album is opened by the familiar crying of haegum. Just as in their other works, the post-rockers are again all in with Korean folk instruments that are exotic but also absolutely fitting to the energetic instrumental music they do. As said by Lee Il-woo, playing guitar and p'iri spokesman of the band, "most people expect Asian traditional music to make something smooth for yoga or meditation, we wanted to break all of that.” 

The surprising thing here the amount of vocals on the album. While the band never said no to those, ONDA makes the singing/instruments ratio different. Especially when you take a look on Sun. Tears. Red and its... almost rapping fragments. And as there's a ot of emotions in those, you can feel like listening to trap metal played with live instruments. But the vocals are at their best in the title track ONDA with its epically monumental finish closing the whole album.

ONDA costs 7 GBP.

Check: ONDA

Country: South Korea 

Genre: folk post-rock

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