Altair - Siempre habrá luces en otro lugar (2022)

The third album from the Spanish Altair is here. After the fantastic Nuestro enemigo back in 2019, Siempre habrá luces en otro lugar makes a perfect comeback to the angsty and energetic world of the band's post-hardcore music.

There's something in Altair's music that keeps me interested in their releases despite the fact that I'm not really a post-hardcore person. However, the screamy vocals here sound honest and very, very engaging. They sound like a true scream of anger and desperation without forgetting about being part of a music composition. And true to this vibe, the album starts with screamed out "The circle does not stop/ The rust of the years flies over me, creating a dense black sphere", tons of self-conscious thoughts of a human being that can be universally relatable. And anxious over. 

This atmosphere breaks at some point when in Divino tesoro the music suddenly becomes an out-of-place pop-rock derivative, but it doesn't last and the whole song dies in static noise. The whole album combines post-hardcore's desperation and, curiously, hope as even the title that translates to "There will always be lights somewhere else" can be read in two different ways.

Siempre habrá luces en otro lugar costs whatever you want to pay.

Altair - Nuestro enemigo (2019)

Check: Réplica (nadie por quien llorar) 

Country: Spain

Genre: desperate post-hardcore

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Altair - Nuestro enemigo (2019) EN

It'a a rare thing for such a very post-hardcore music to be posted about on this blog. So the fact that they are here means that this music is a bit different, good, intriguing, whatever you call it. Let's listen together to Nuestro enemigo.

In their own words, the band situate their music on the boarder between screamo and post-rock. And it's very audible on the album. Although it starts with this desperate, aggressive but also melancholic in a way vocal/scream. But this album is not only about it. A nice touch is including some spoken word vocal which in Spanish for me automatically sounds like a sample taken from a movie. Separate words of admiration are to be said about the music layer. The guitars and compositions often relate closely to post-rock, just as said before, and some tracks like Distancias, fronteras with its loud finish, or the title track Nuestro enemigo boost this opinion. Not to mention the almost perfectly post-rock finish in Afasia.

Nuestro enemigo costs 3 EUR.

Check: Nuestro enemigo

Country: Spain

Genre: screamo post-rock

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Altair - Nuestro enemigo (2019) PL

Rzadko kiedy na tym blogu wita tak czysty post hardcore. A więc sam fakt, że Hiszpanie z Altair się tutaj znaleźli świadczy o tym, ze ich muzyka jest inna, dobra, intrygująca. Niepotrzebne skreślić. Posłuchajcie ze mną Nuestro enemigo.

Sami sytuują swoją muzykę na granicy screamo i post-rocku. I to słychać na płycie doskonale. Zaczyna się co prawda tym desperackim, agresywnym ale też na swój sposób melancholijnym wokalem/screamem. Tylko że to nie tylko o niego na płycie chodzi. Fajnie brzmi też wokal mówiony, spoken word po hiszpańsku automatycznie brzmi dla mnie jak wyjęty z filmu. Na osobne słowa zasługuje natomiast warstwa instrumentalna. Gitary i kompozycje często kojarzą się z post-rockiem właśnie, a takie kawałki jak zakończone głośnym finałem Distancias, fronteras czy tytułowe Nuestro enemigo, tylko to podkreślają, nie wspominają już o czysto post-rockowym finiszu w Afasii.

Nuestro enemigo kosztuje 13 złotych (3 EUR).

Sprawdź: Nuestro enemigo

Kraj: Hiszpania

Szufladka: screamo post-rock

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