Hope the Flowers - Sonorous Faith PT​.​2 (2023)

The first part of this album came out all the way in 2023 and I liked it so much that this year's second part had to appear here as well. Hailing from Thailand, Hope the Flowers is one of my favourite Asian post-rock outfits and the one that shows how to make a really orchestral sound within this music genre.

The new album is said to represent the "beautiful and gentle side" of the project that started as a one-man outfit by Narongrit Ittipolnavakul to evolve into the full-blown orchestral line-up we know at the moment. This multi-threaded music really can become something very powerful, even in this "gentler" form. So, even though it really is softer and more detail-oriented post-rock music, the overall structure of the tracks do remind me of MONO's music with the long developing compositions that can suddenly burst into loud, very emotional fragments. 

However, most of the album is kept in this key-like notes-filled, beautiful, neoclassical soundscape atmosphere that is both extremely attractive and very moody. This all is achieved with guitars that are accompanied by orchestra-like classical instruments, with the heavier sounds of trumpets and the softest ones of glockenspiel and, very occasionally, vocals. Good stuff from South-East Asia.

Sonorous Faith PT​.​2 costs 10 USD.

Hope the Flower - Sonorous Faith Pt. 1 (2020)

Check: Anahata

Country: Thailand

Genre: orchestral post-rock

Label: Newlights Production

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