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Last year, the Lebanese band Postcards' album The Good Soldier was one of my biggest discoveries and best dream pop works of 2021 in general. That said, they are together as a music group for almost a decade now. This year they are back with another airy album called After the Fire, Before the End.
Their music is built on the way Julia Sabra's extremely dreamy and accordingly dispersed vocals contrast with very rock-like guitar's crisp sound. Starting from the beautiful Mother Toungue, the album shows mostly compositions characterized by the slowcore pace and ballad-like, poignant atmosphere. The guitars are the only noisier elements and they really do sound inspired by some kind of grunge or americana rock, there's a certain dusty vibe of the Western audible here, perhaps not so much as in the new Holy Motors' music, but it's there. The only song that suddenly bursts out with faster pace and rock'n'roll-like energy is Bruises. But when you start to dance, it's already over and you are sinking in Flowers in Your Hair's ballad quicksand again.
And this dreamy atmosphere covers a lot gloomier lyrics. The band's background certainly leaves a big mark on Sabra's lyrics that include tons of allusions to violence, war and the Beirut's explosion from the last year's summer (in the poignant Red) as well as to the fate of women in the Middle East. The whole album, both music- and lyrics-wise, culminates in If I Die, a song filled with the feeling of utter hopelessness that at the same time borders with the up-lifting conclusion; it's the "there's nothing left so we can start again" kind of feeling.
After the Fire, Before the End costs 10 USD.
Check: If I Die
Country: Lebanon
Genre: dreamy slowcore
Label: T3 Records
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