adele dazeem - Metanoia (2025)

They are named after actress and singer Idina Menzel (whose first name was famously mispronounced by John Travolta, resulting in her using "Adele" in multiple occasions afterwards), they come from London and they released their first EP last autumn. This blend of shoegazey atmosphere and post-punk vibes caught my attention immediately.

The EP is short, but still it's clearly well done: there are parts that are noisy, there are parts filled with darker, coldwave approach to music, there are some curious instrumental parts too. Their compositions are designed to go on and on, mesmerizing the audience with the harsh trance-inducing passages and overwhelming with noisy guitars. I'm very happy that the musicians don't consider the end of lyrics as the end of their songs: I'd say that in this case, the songs really start after the post-punk vocals disappear. But it's only my instrumental-noise bias probably.

Metanoia costs 6 EUR (5 GBP).

Check: Misère

Country: UK

Genre: noisy coldwave

Label: Sonic Cathedral

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Lorelle Meets the Obsolete - Corporal (2025)

Lorelle (or Lorena Quintanilla) and The Obsolete (aka Alberto González) make music together for 15 years now and somehow this exciting guitar music with a solid dose of ethereality has never been posted about on this blog! I really had to change that, given that the 7th album from the Mexican artists is really something.

The psychedelic rock from the duo is quite dark and minimal, drawing a lot from the cold wave and synthwave genres: Lorelle's emotionless vocals really sound like taken from the genre's main stream and the synthy backgrounds mesmerize the audience with the sequential, looping passages. I mean, almost half of Dilación is drums with bass line only, this is not the dark guitar minimalism, I don't know what is.

The album reaches an interesting point in Palabra, a track where tamed cacophony rapidly turns into industrial noise while everything is smoothed down by the subtle vocalization, I love it! It shows what range the musicians have and how unafraid of experimenting they are (especially that here's also a place for pure guitar drone track at the album too). I'm sure people know about the duo, but for me, it's a great discovery.

Corporal costs 12 EUR (10 GBP).

Check: Control

Country: Mexico

Genre: dreamy coldwave

Label: Sonic Cathedral

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MOLLY - Picturesque (2023)

Although I missed it on this blog, MOLLY's debut album All That Ever Could Have Been was a true highlight of 2019 for me. And as the sophomore Picturesque is at least as good as the first one, it simply had to appear in here.

The Austrian duo's post-rock music formed as indie rock compositions has been compared to variety of other bands, including most notably Sigur Rós. For me, it is close to what The Boxer Rebellion used to make at their beginnings: high-pitched, soft and emotional vocals in melodic compositions for which the backgrounds are pure post-rock sounds. The new album is opened exactly like that: the single track Ballerina is fairly short and radio-worthy, but at the same time shows the heavy post-rock influences, audible from the very first notes. But already the second song is very different: four minutes of more traditional artsy and indie composition, followed by almost 10 minutes-long pure post-rock masterpiece.

The whole album balances between indie art rock and post-rock noisy crescendos. This combination is both tear-jerking and euphoric, lyrical and heavy. In this unorthodox approach to the genres, MOLLY remind me also about their compatriots from Our Ceasing Voices - while the music is slightly different, the overall atmosphere is similar.

Picturesque costs 7 EUR (6 GBP).

Check: The Golden Age

Country: Austria

Genre: post-rock art rock

Label: Sonic Cathedral

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