Hope the Flowers - Sonorous Faith PT​.​2 (2023)

The first part of this album came out all the way in 2023 and I liked it so much that this year's second part had to appear here as well. Hailing from Thailand, Hope the Flowers is one of my favourite Asian post-rock outfits and the one that shows how to make a really orchestral sound within this music genre.

The new album is said to represent the "beautiful and gentle side" of the project that started as a one-man outfit by Narongrit Ittipolnavakul to evolve into the full-blown orchestral line-up we know at the moment. This multi-threaded music really can become something very powerful, even in this "gentler" form. So, even though it really is softer and more detail-oriented post-rock music, the overall structure of the tracks do remind me of MONO's music with the long developing compositions that can suddenly burst into loud, very emotional fragments. 

However, most of the album is kept in this key-like notes-filled, beautiful, neoclassical soundscape atmosphere that is both extremely attractive and very moody. This all is achieved with guitars that are accompanied by orchestra-like classical instruments, with the heavier sounds of trumpets and the softest ones of glockenspiel and, very occasionally, vocals. Good stuff from South-East Asia.

Sonorous Faith PT​.​2 costs 10 USD.

Hope the Flower - Sonorous Faith Pt. 1 (2020)

Check: Anahata

Country: Thailand

Genre: orchestral post-rock

Label: Newlights Production

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Hope the Flower - Sonorous Faith Pt. 1 (2020) EN

Thailand's Hope the Flower is a collective that assembles a small troop of musicians resulting in an exceptionally spacious and multidimensional music. The band just released their third album called Sonorous Faith Pt. 1.

The release is meant to be delivered in two parts, this is the first one in which the band decided to break a mold and show "a more aggressive and heavier sound than what we have done in the previous album". Indeed, there's a lot of guitars that gain the whole attention together with the good, solid noise (as in the thrilling Sentinel), although every moment has a huge saturation of melancholy too.

Another thing is that the band's strength is diversification of the sound. Interlude I breaks the guitar's cacophony with violins and glockenspiel already. But it's best audible in Shout Out for the Sea, in which both strings and trumpets and keys work fantastically with the guitars, as well as in the album's finish in Rewind Nature. I think I'd rather have more of this in the whole album but it seems that for this, I need to wait for the second part of the release.

Sonorous Faith Pt. 1 costs 9 USD.

Check: Rewind Nature
Country: Thailand

Genre: orchestral post-rock
Label: Newlights Production

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A World Wondered Full - คุณจะเรียกหาใครในเมื่อตำรวจเป็นคนฆ่า และคุณจะร้องเพลงอะไรสำหรับบ้านที่ลุกไหม้สว่างโร่ (2020) EN

The Thai band A World Wondered Full released recently another impressive and touching album. It's worth looking into คุณจะเรียกหาใครในเมื่อตำรวจเป็นคนฆ่า และคุณจะร้องเพลงอะไรสำหรับบ้านที่ลุกไหม้สว่าโร่  not only for the music.

The album's title translates to "Who will you call when the police kill you? And what will you sing for the blazing house?" so it's not a difficult thing to guess that the album makes another musical commentary on the restlessness around the world (I just posted about one from Domani Vendetta), although the musicians mention that they write on the situation in Thailand, one I don't know much about truth be said. Anyway - the musical way to do so taken by the band is extremely piercing. 

Long tracks on the album are fused with samples of despair and aggression as well as with very gloomy sounds of strings. The first track makes a not very noisy acoustic post-rock, the second shows a lot of guitar noise while the third part even some... Near East's folk? An intriguing release, that's for sure.

คุณจะเรียกหาใครในเมื่อตำรวจเป็นคนฆ่า และคุณจะร้องเพลงอะไรสำหรับบ้านที่ลุกไหม้สว่าโร่ costs 8 USD

Check: คุณจะเรียกหาใครในเมื่อตำรวจเป็นคนฆ่า และคุณจะร้องเพลงอะไรสำหรับบ้านที่ลุกไหม้สว่างโร่ : Part 2

Country: Thailand

Genre: Acoustic post-rock

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