⊙ (L'Effondras) - Anabasis (2021)

Four years after their last release (the brilliant Les Flavescences), the French band ⊙ are back with their fourth album called Anabasis. Filled with guitar post-rock sounds, this is a solid offer for all the fans of the genre.

The LP shows a "natural progression in the band's body of work, clarifying their aesthetics in five haunted & hypnotic tracks". Those are built in rather unique way, the compositions are often very suprising and pace-changing (take for instance the second part of The Grinding Wheel with its hesitant and yet very loud bursts of sound). And so it makes the longest tracks the most unpredictable and thus the best, especially when it comes to the 11-minutes-long Ce que revele l'eclipse with the massive wall of noise that makes an especially satisfying post-rock treat. There's so many interesting moments on the album, even though it's only almost 40 minutes long, and everything is based on the impressive and highly atmospheric guitar madness - it is definitely true that the album "explores more emotional & personal territories without losing an inch of the band's gritty trademark".

Anabasis costs 7 EUR.

Check: The Grinding Wheel

Country: France

Genre: guitar post-rock

Label: Medication Time Records

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