Atsuko Chiba - Water, It Feels Like It's Growing (2023)

The Canadian band claim to "venturesomely cross genre-defining borders with a cohesive and hypnotic blend of post-rock, progressive rock, and krautrock, weaving together a rich sonic tapestry that subverts through offbeat songwriting". This blend of genres feels particularly impressive on their third album called Water, It Feels Like It's Growing.

The dense and steamy atmosphere is one that characterizes the band. Their music is very much guitar-oriented, often in a very prog rock way, but adds so much to their compositions. The very first thing is the use of vocals: there is a good range of various kinds of vocals, often with the use of backing vocals, making those heavy psychedelic rock vibes all over the album. These fun-fueled, colourful compositions have this energetic and engaging component accentuated very much. But the band's music can get more atmospheric, even dreamy, with Shook (I'm Often)'s oneiric vocals that fill out the spaces around the audience and Seeds' beautiful string sounds. The whole album sounds like it was taken from thee past when psychedelia and prog were more popular and I appreciate this kind of homage.

Water, It Feels Like It's Growing costs 9 EUR (9.99 CAD).

Check: Water, It Feels Like It's Growing

Country: Canada 

Genre: psychedelic prog rock

Label: Mothland

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