terraplana - natural (2025)

The Brazilians from terraplana made it to my blog already two years ago with their debut album and they are back so soon. Their sophomore release called natural proves that making the melodic, noisy and very honest music for them is, well, natural.

This is the kind of shoegazey, noisey music that feels like fun indie rock reworked to be airier and noisier with a big addition of the DIY honesty to the compositions. It is led by the duality of vocals with the more cheerful female ones provided by Stephani Heuczuk and the gloomier male ones. Interestingly enough, the new album features also a collaboration with Boston-based Winter and I have to say that hear a whisper has to be my favourite track here, the whispery additions fit so well to the otherwise upbeat song. I'm very happy to hear that the gazey scene in Brazil is alive and kicking and terraplana is my favourite proof for that.

Natural costs 10 USD.

Check: hear a whisper

Country: Brazil

Genre: noisy indie rock

Label: Balaclava Records

terraplana - olhar pra tr​á​s (2023)

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terraplana - olhar pra tr​á​s (2023)

The underground very noisy music from Brazil makes another appearance on my blog. This time, it's all about the Curitiba-based terraplana who have recently released their first ever LP called olhar pra tr​á​s.

The album is kept in this very much melancholic atmosphere (the title itself translates to "Look back") which is built with the extremely noisy, lo-fi sounding guitars and dispersed vocals. The latter are provided by Stephani Heuczuk who, together with another band member, Cassiano Kruchelski, interestingly enough for me have names that give out some kind or Poland-related origins. Anyway, music-wise there's everything one would expect from the shoegaze music with strong lo-fi vibes: the guitar noise is something that reigns the compositions and makes an overwhelming effect on the audience with the melodies and vocals struggling to resurface. But this is what we are here for.

olhar pra tr​á​s costs 7 USD.

Check: memórias

Country: Brazil

Genre: lo-fi shoegaze

Label: Balaclava Records

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