Böira - Cendres ~ Mineral (2021)

The second post-rock band hailing from Spain/Catalonia recently here, this is Böira - a five-piece collective of heavy guitar sounds and very unique compositions. They released their debut album back in 2015 but I hadn't known them before the release of this year's Cendres ~ Mineral. Which is really, really good.

The Barcelona-based band's music is pretty much the perfect balance of lively and adrenaline-packed mathrock and the atmosphere-oriented, darker post-rock. The latter is provided not only by the slower pace of some parts within their compositions but most notably by the absolutely outstanding use of piano/keyboards - they are not only beautiful ornaments like it often is but the core element of the music here without being brought towards synth-heavy futuristic post-rock like, say, Tides from Nebula now. It's a darker, more neoclassical way of piano music incorporated into post-rock, often quite fast, environment, and well done too.

As I said, this is not a dark ballad-like instrumental music, there is pace, energy and heaviness here, at some points, the heavy, almost metal-like guitars take over, as in Obaga or Brot with its similarly metal drums, and carry the compositions until the ever-emerging piano comes back. These are piano-soundscapes but with turned-on speed and heavier impact. 

Cendres ~ Mineral costs 5 EUR.

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Country: Spain/Catalonia

Genre: piano-led post-rock

Label: Aloud Music Ltd.

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