Ingrina - Nåværende lys (2026)

Nåværende lys or The Current Light in English, makes the third instance in the Lys trilogy from the French band Ingrina and their third LP at the same time. The group of nihilist whose motto says "The meaning is lost and it always has been" creates a surprisingly hopeful music that balances the darkness and the light, the heavy and the modern in the most exciting way.

The central motif  of the album is this rogue kind of hope that is born out of losing everything, but also escaping the worst possible ending. As the band puts it, it "celebrates a vivid present in which life forms have succeeded in rendering their existences limitless, abolishing the borders, walls, and prisons that had confined them until then". The freedom you can get drunk on, the ecstatic feeling that makes you fly and cry at the same time as I understand it. And it is also the feeling the high-paced, modern-sounding post-rock/post-metal of the Frenchmen gives you.

Driven by the rocket fuel of guitar effects, the music here is fast and rich in flow. It makes me think of Ingrina's compatriots from Dragunov, this kind of modern take on post-rock that is less about the guitar riffs and more about the pace and the smoothness of the sound. But it doesn't mean it's not heavy because heavy it really is, especially in the inspiring opener in Time or slightly slower and doomer Grips. But the fast pace of the compositions making the 40 minutes feel like a blink of an eye, is the core of this album. You are suddenly transported into the future and the chaos of And All the Deadly Frontiers.

Nåværende lys costs 5 EUR.

Check: Time

Country: France

Genre: modern post-rock

Label: Medication Time Records

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Fågelle - Den svenske vreden (2023)

It seems like Scandinavian countries are a limitless source of (usually female) artists who create music that is both exceptionally artsy and utterly atmospheric. Let's not waste space here on enlisting them, it's enough to say that Klara Andersson aka Fågelle is another one who is already well-known on the European music scene. This year she came back with her sophomore album called Den svenske vreden.

Although the title translates to "the Swedish anger", anger is not something the music itself conveys here. From the music perspective, it's more a melancholic, slightly dark kind of high-brow pop music that looks for new means of expression rather than choosing the easy ways to grab the attention of the audience. So it's less about the melodic music, it's more about employing such music items as "twisted field recordings, mobile memories, digital trash, dark electronics, and howling choirs while moving between harmony and noise" to create something memorable.

And this comes with Andersson's vocals that feel so very close to the audience, never hidden behind the music background, bringing tons of emotions to the table, although it doesn't feel like an over-the-top performance. They are quite surprisingly balanced at one point by the particularly male-deep vocals by Joakim Thåström  in Kroppen, but otherwise it really feels like it's a party of one artist with all the attention drawn to her.

Den sveske vreden costs 7 EUR.

Check: Ingenting

Country: Sweden

Genre: dark electronic pop

Label: Medication Time Records

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