Ciśnienie - Radio Edit (2021)

Ciśnienie is a Katowice, Poland-based jazzy post-rock band that exists for a while now but had no studio long play album in their discography until now. This is great news because the live albums, although generally appreciated, didn't strike the right note with me. With Radio Edit it's so much different (although technically it's also live but recorded with no audience).

The album is opened with a quieter jazzy and piano-based fragment in Czarodziej ("A Wizard") but this massive, over 16-minutes long track goes on and ends up in a very post-rock, guitar-filled way with a big and loud bang. It is surprisingly serious and dark (for a jazzy music) but this feeling is denied with Zerok, a lively, trumpet-oriented tune that brings light to the heavy vibes of the album's beginning and quickly evolves into a jazzy chaos we know and like. Most of the fragments all over the album, however, are built more like post-rock pieces - with music gradually building up to a loud and satisfying finish (best heard in Calm the fuck down, one that is as far from being calm as possible).

The best part of the album for me would be Diet Choke, the shortest track here surprises with heavy electronic leitmotif that brings a lot of extremely attractive industrial and heavy vibes, this is the track that evokes the most tension and puts a lot of pressure ("ciśnienie" in Polish) on the audience and they're bound to love it.

Radio Edit costs (5 EUR).

Check: Diet Choke

Country: Poland

Genre: jazzy post-rock

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