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When Waves Collide are a French post-rock band that is in fact debuting with their first longer album called Chasm. However, they sound as if they'd been doing instrumental music for years now, the compositions they are showing now are top-quality examples of what post-rock should look like.
The album tells "the story of a civilization at the edge of collapsing. Human void or geologic fault, one falls into it all hoping for a sign". Those apocalyptic vibes are reflected in ancient terminologies in the song titles (after all, the myths about the end of the world are ancient texts that MAY have importance today as well) and in the darker sound of the post-rock here. There's the sense of unnerving wait for something to happen while knowing it is going to be disastrous. It is sown into this mainstream-sounding post-rock that is enriched with the bits of monumentalism and darkness that make it so inspiring (Cataclysm makes the peak here).
That said, there's a few moments of toning the post-rock down into more dark ambient areas but towards the end of the album. In general, it is more about emotions of the catastrophic events about to happen or happening at the moment, it's about fear and the adrenaline rush, less about grief. I like how it is depicted in the exciting Omen and in the short, more electronic finish in Stranding.
Chasm costs 6 EUR.
Check: Cataclysm
Country: France
Genre: dark post-rock
Label: Antigony Records
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