Powder! Go Away - Jól (2021)

Powder! Go Away is a band hailing from Moscow, who is all about guitar noise in the post-rock form. They are on the stage for a decade now as their debut album Laika Still Wants Go Home was released in 2011. Now, perhaps to honor this anniversary, the Russians showed their fifth one called Jól.

I'm pretty sure the release in January came a bit too late as the album's title (Scandinavian for Yule) and the pagan-like symbol on its cover suggest that the main theme should be Christmas or at least what it was way back in the pre-Christian times. (That said, the Orthodox Church celebrates it later so maybe it's actually perfect.) Also the songs' titles are filled with folklore and its darker side with gloomy forests and witches all over the place. Their music, on the other hand, is not as dark really. There are some fragments but otherwise it's very much instrumental rock music with some even rock'n'roll fragments. To admire guitar skills rather than to drown in the atmosphere. With the exception of Sun Loop, the loopy ambient-like atmosphere of which is something I dig. And, of course, my favourite track here, the moody finisher in And the Sun Will Return.

Jól costs 5 USD.

Check: And the Sun Will Return

Country: Russia

Genre: guitar post-rock

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