Baulta - Another Second Chance (2021)

The Finnish band Baulta make their heavily guitar-based music for 10 years now, the debut album, Deeply Sorry to Interrupt Your Megalomania was released back in 2011. To mark this important anniversary, they created an album with rather deceitful (for a band of that impressive history) title Another Second Chance.

I don't have to give the Finns another second chance, I like their music already, with Any Fool Can Regret Yesterday being considered one of the best of 2014. Having said that, the new one may be the best one yet. It's all due to the perfectly executed way of putting the focus on the dark and heavy atmosphere here. There's little riff-racing among the guitarists, rather the music makes a melancholic, tear-jerking space for emotions. It is achieved also by introducing some very light, piano-like notes that contrast with the background, uniform darkness like stars do on a night sky, especially impressively in the album's opener in Third.

Another emotional moments come with the noisy collapse of My Golden Cage, the very post-rock-like summit of the wall of noise brings satisfaction and a lot of feelings that are difficult to describe. The overall message here is positive though, although the albums is meant to be "a journey from the beauty of a birth to the struggle of self-awareness" (not so subtly hinted in Hardly Even Here's finish), its description ends with an uplifting "Even the longest night will end and the sun will rise".

Another Second Chance costs 7 EUR.

Check: My Golden Cage

Country: Finland

Genre: dark post-rock

Label: dunk!records

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