Wale Fall - Five (2024)

It's almost five years since this Los Angeles band appeared on the blog with their fourth album. As the title of the new one suggests, I haven't missed any of their releases in the way and it's a good thing as the Americans offer a quality guitar-based post-rock soaked with their own unique style based on the use of brass instruments.

The touch of the brass instruments sound is certainly something that makes the band unique. In fact, the album is opened by El Jinete, a track that revolves around, what I presume is, the traditional Mexican trumpet music. I mean I know it from westerns and Zorro probably, but this is my association, and, if it's correct, I like the fact that the Californian band embraces the region's history and channels it in their music. Unique and coherent. But the band use even more unorthodox instrument, like cello that adds to the atmospheric side of their music.

But the overall vibes on the album are less atmospheric or noisy and more into the melodic nature of instrumental music. In fact, I'd say it's music that sits on the verge of what we consider post-rock and it's a good thing too. This is also strengthen by the act that the musicians also stress how important improvisation is for their creative process, making me think less of post-rock and more of other instrumental-only genres. Regardless, a unique album with great music (and some sense of humour too in some of the track titles). 

Five costs 7 USD.

Whale Fall - It Will Become Itself (2020)

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Country: California, US

Genre: melodic post-rock

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Whale Fall - It Will Become Itself (2020) PL

Stajnia australijskiego Art as Catharsis powiększyła się o kalifornijskich post-rockowców z Whale Fall. Wydana w kwietniu płyta It Will Become Itself to świeże spojrzenie na gitarowy post-rock z ambicjami do bycia czymś więcej.

Wyjątkowość zespołu leży w ich umiejętności łączenia tradycyjnego post-rockowego instrumentarium "z bardziej sielskimi dźwiękami pianina, wiolonczeli, dęciaków i okazjonalnie analogowego syntezatora." Płyta powstała na podstawie studyjnej improwizacji całego zespołu, która po kilku miesiącach została odkryta na nowo i uznana za udaną na tyle, by zamienić ją w regularne wydawnictwo i tak stała się sobą, jak upamiętnia jej tytuł. 

Wrażenie robi zwłaszcza trwający niemal połowę niekrótkiego przecież albumu El Caracol. W nim najlepiej czuć ten improwizowany, mocno jazzujący chociaż wciąż nadzwyczaj klimatyczny sznyt zespołu. Swój szczyt album osiąga natomiast w A Street Scene w jego chaotyczno-instrumentalnej kakofonii

It Will Become Itself kosztuje 28 złotych (10 AUD).

Sprawdź: A Street Scene

Kraj: Kalifornia, US

Szufladka: jazzy post-rock
Label: Art as Catharsis

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Whale Fall - It Will Become Itself (2020) EN

The Art as Catharsis label added Californian post-rockers from Whale Fall to their team. Released in April, the album It Will Become Itself makes a fresh take on guitar post-rock with ambitions to become something more.

The uniqueness of the band is due to their ability to combine the traditional post-rock instruments with "more pastoral strokes of piano, cello, brass, and occasional analog synth." The album was created on the basis of a studio improvisation of the whole band that after several months was discovered anew and assessed to be good enough to become a regular release and so it became itself as the title states.

Great impression is made by the track that lasts by almost the half of the not so short album, called El Caracol. It's here that you can best feel this impro, very much jazzy but still extremely atmospheric vibe of the band. And the album climaxes in A Street Scene and its chaotically instrumental cacophony.

It Will Become Itself costs 10 AUD.

Check: A Street Scene

Country: California, US

Genre: jazzy post-rock
Label: Art as Catharsis

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