Yenisei - Reflections (2021)

Two years ago, they debuted with the impressive The Last Cruise, and, together with Transmission Zero, they got known as the new and well-promising post-rock bands from Kraków. Yenisei were the more atmospheric and spacious ones and it's also true with their new album Reflections.

While the album opens with the genre's traditional guitar-based but also melodic Gravity, the album goes on towards compositions that are more into creating a certain, spacious atmosphere. As usual, the melodies are also present here but they are more subtle and often keys-based (like in Aftermath) which makes the whole album more delicate than the debut; in the first half, not so often turning into louder, heavier crescendos, like it is in Waves and Blurred Horizon. This second track may be a turning point for the album as its second part seems to be noisier with the fast and aggressive (but also synthy) No Escape and loudly atmospheric Memories of Times Before. This culminates in my favourite track on the album, All That You Could Become and its impressive finish. This makes me feel like the whole album was supposed to be structured as a one, almost-an-hour-long post-rock song with the beautiful start with occasional bursts of energy, slow build-up and massive release towards the end. That's some good song-writing.

Reflections costs 4.5 EUR.

Yenisei - The Last Cruise (2019)

Check: All That You Could Become

Country: Poland

Genre: atmospheric post-rock

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