In the middle of Polish November, when it's not only rain that goes down but all of our hopes go there too, let's go to sunny Mexico. As people are supposed to do. And let's check if it's possible to make music that pours from every part of the Icelandic landscape while being surrounded by flowers, fruit and sunshine. Spoiler alert: it is.
A Shelter In The Desert is a band that plays music because they love it (as they say on their Bandcamp account). They come from Mexico City, the third biggest urban agglomeration in the world - a place that couldn't be more different from Ólafur Arnalds' whipped by wind island (coincidentally, Ólafur is one of the band's music inspiration). But their music is equally good. But louder. Because ASITD plays post-rock in which there's no place for melancholic background humming - more like the fast pulse of drums and clear, catchy melodies. Or delicate sounds of piano that steal attention just like the Mexican flowers from the album's cover.
It's not a surprise that "Pequeñas Hiroshimas" (small Hiroshimas) deals with everyday explosions we are the victims of when our life treats us with everything but love (and now everybody thinks of an example of their recent Little Boy). But "todo podrá estallar, pero siempre habrá una adelfa que nacerá de entre los escombros" - everything may explode yet still there's always a rosebay that grows out of the ruins. An optymistic post-rock from the land of sun.
It's not a surprise that "Pequeñas Hiroshimas" (small Hiroshimas) deals with everyday explosions we are the victims of when our life treats us with everything but love (and now everybody thinks of an example of their recent Little Boy). But "todo podrá estallar, pero siempre habrá una adelfa que nacerá de entre los escombros" - everything may explode yet still there's always a rosebay that grows out of the ruins. An optymistic post-rock from the land of sun.
The album "Pequeñas Hiroshimas" is available for 6$.
