Windermere - Unspoken / Unheard (2020)

The Danish Windermere haven't released any new album sine 2006 but somehow recently they are able to entertain us with their music again. After the live recording earlier last year, they released an unused material from after No One Winds, their last studio album. And Unspoken / Unheard makes a sad experience, showing how much hood music have we lost due to the band's inactivity.

Although they are more likely to be called a dream pop band, the new album is purely instrumental and filled with an exciting blend that could be easily called "dreamy post-rock". It is told to be "a bit rough around the edges", but, honestly, I have little idea what they are talking about. Instead, they are a great example of how well the dream pop's ethereal atmosphere can work with instrumental-only post-rock sounds. I bet there would have been lyrics and vocals put on top if it had been to be fully developed, but it really works like it is now.

Actually, it works exceptionally well in Untitled 2, in which the drone-like passages are given so much dream pop fantasy but at the same time preserve their mysterious atmosphere until they transform to a full-time post-rock composition. And when the whole thing dies slowly in the very much instrumental ambient of the fourth track, you can ask yourself a question, "how good their third album could be?".

Unspoken / Unheard costs whatever you want to pay.

Check: Untitled 2

Country: Denmark

Genre: dreamy post-rock

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