The Existential Hunting in theory is the debut album by the Californians, but the band consists of experienced musicians led by Sacha Dunable who played in projects such as Intronaut or Bereft. Their first album is filled with heavy, masculine post-rock, amplifying the styles of the aforementioned bands.
From the beginning of the album we are being attacked by heavy, tearing , but also slow sounds. It was really well said in the album's promo materials that they are: "combining the slow-motion crushing power of doom with the atmosphere and dense harmonic tendencies of Intronaut". The pace doesn't change a lot whether it is the monstrous, long-distance What Is Anything, or shorter and more intense pieces such as Absolute Zero.
It gets more psychedelic in Make Flowers. Besides the cut in half flow of the music, the band give us their unclear, ridiculously distorted vocal (I guess it's vocal) sounding as if taken straight out of a horror movie, and it fits so well. That's why it's a shame that it's only a one time experiment as the band soon comes back to their already established, still very good, rhythm.
The Existential Hunting costs 6.99 EUR.
Check: Make Flowers
Country: California, US
Genre: doom post-rock
