czwartek, 5 maja 2022

Somali Yacht Club - The Space (2022)


After Sun and The Sea, there comes The Space. The third album by the Ukrainian post-metal/stoner rock big names makes an amazing and very heavy experience. It is also pretty amazing that it could get released at all.

The band's modus operandi is to explore the "boundless, wide-open, quiet/loud spaces that atmospheric post-rock and metal occupy". Their music is build on the stoner-like heavy guitar sound with its relatively slow pace and thick atmosphere. This creates a literal sea of noise with drums being the waves on the surface and the vocals the wind traveling over. There's such a clear nostalgic vibes here, the vocals sound tearful at some places, the music deep and mesmerizingly noisy. Especially when the vocals turn more towards choral chanting in Echo of Direction. Powerful stuff.

I find the album even more significant as it was released while the band's country is literally on fire and the bombs are falling down around their homes. The album is a sign that there's still place for art in hell and it is also used for good cause as the band is going "to donate all profits made in 2022 (till the end of the year) to various charities to help Ukraine and Ukrainians now". 

The Space costs 9.99 USD.


Check: Silver
Country: Ukraine
Genre: stoner post-metal
Label: Season of Mist



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