where mermaids drown - Reminisce (2023)

It's been already two years since the French band where mermaids drown showed their first short album called And the Raging Winds Do Blow and what a debut it was! Now it's time for the artists, after a great gig at last year's dunk!festival, to prove that they belong to the most exciting new post-rock outfit in Europe.

On their new album, the band explores the way the relationships between humans are built and how they die, making room for creating life-long memories. And their approached the theme with a set of already-proved tools they are really good at: creating very moody, very atmospheric post-rock that is ready to serve slower, moodier peaces that lead to loud and massive fragments of guitar bliss. I like dividing post-rock into two categories: the more guitar-riff-melodies kind and the atmosphere-is-crucial one; where mermaids drown seem to be a perfect bridge over the two. One can't deny the thickness of the music layers here, but there's a good deal of guitar melodies (those faster and slower as well) - a really well-balanced album.

Reminisce costs 10 EUR.

Where Mermaids Drown - And the Raging Winds Do Blow (2021)

Check: Rio Plata

Country: France

Genre: atmospheric post-rock

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Where Mermaids Drown - And the Raging Winds Do Blow (2021)

The French post-rock band Where Mermaids Drown certainly has some attention from their very beginning. This is their debut EP and, as far as I know, it's covered by Where Post-Rock Dwells and released by POST. Recordings - so not just random people. And this is very much earned as And the Raging Winds Do Blow brings a lot of good, instrumental music.

This is this kind of post-rock that is played on Dunk!Festival and, I dare say, will be in not so distant future. It's clear that the French know how to write compositions in this genre so that they are captivating and diverse - so we have some spoken word samples, a lot of picturesque guitar soundscapes and the feeling of monumentality just within the reach of your hand. The EP consists only of three pieces but this is a) still a lot of music, b) quality material and this beats quantity every time. What's surprising, although the music of Where Mermaids Drown is filled with guitar noise, it is not built as archetype crescendo-finished compositions. Except for the last one, fantastically satisfying Brine Pool that makes me think that the whole half-an-hour-long EP is basically one single, epic track.

And the Raging Winds Do Blow costs 5 EUR.

Check: Brine Pool

Country: France

Genre: guitar post-rock

Label: POST. Recordings

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