Toothwalker - Reboot, Reinvent (2022)

Three musicians out of Prague make up Toothwalker, a band devoted to "combining a post-rock atmosphere with heavy riffs and modern electronica". Three years after their debut EP, they showcase their music on another one called Reboot, Reinvent.

The album is said to represent "an essence of [their] emotions from the past two years including the dark pandemic times" and is inspired by the nature of Czech Republic, the calmness and sanctuary it provides for people. And so the EP starts accordingly calmly, as if aiming to inject this natural peace into the audience with the beautiful and silent guitar sounds. However, as could be expected, the calmness lasts only about half of the first song when the guitar heaviness starts to take over. It feels heavy and smooth in the pretty atmospheric way. BURST, however, adds some of the riff-based heavy metal madness to the whole thing and it is surprisingly (for me) extremely attractive. Especially that it's balanced with ethereal backgrounds. I like how much unpredictability there is in the Czechs' music and how it still retains the atmospheric-building characteristics.

Reboot, Reinvent costs 2.99 EUR.

Check: BURST

Country: Czech Republic

Genre: guitar post-rock

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