Ascending Divers - Watery Domain (2022)

Hugo Champion, known as the half of the Lisieux duo, makes his solo music under the moniker of Ascending Divers. The French producer has released several albums already, the newest oh which, Watery Domain, was shown to us this August.

His ambient music is dark and monumental, industrial and epic, no wonder that his new album is released by Cyclic Law. The label house describes him as a man providing us with "massively deep atmospherics and drone Sonorites". When his music is not reigned by mountain-reaching electronica, it is wrecked by deep and heavy basses that can make you cry. It's the kind of music that involves so many emotions; even if most of them are dark or darkish, they are definitely worth going through.

Watery Domain costs 8 EUR.

Check: Daybreak in Waves

Country: France

Genre: monumental dark ambient

Label: Cyclic Law

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Secret Gardens - Tundra (2021)

Secret Gardens is one of those solo-projects that absolutely don't feel like they are made of only one person. The ranges of great, guitar post-rock music composed by the American artist, Greg Almeida, are meant to be admired on his debut album Tundra.

The project was designed as an "instrumental therapy for [the artist] though the lens of all the breathtaking things [he has] seen in nature". The first part is visible in I'm Fucking Tired of Being Sad's title and it can be one of the truest sentences in my life too. But there are also references to the nature with Kosciuszko (I believe it's more likely to refer to the mountain than to the Polish historical figure) and Whittier, AK (just google and look at the pictures of this Alaskan town!) but most importantly in the music itself - in most parts monumental, powerful and impressive in the same way high mountains are.

There are exceptions like Stilness, a bit toned down track with vocals by Erin Reus, the vocalist of the Australian band Stateside. And finished in a cool way too. Another one is the aforementioned Whittier, AK that, very fittingly, sounds like a blizzard heard from a sanctuary of a house. Very moody. The album works on audience as well as it seems to have worked on the artist and this is probably the ultimate recommendation.

Tundra costs 10 USD.

Check: Walk Away

Country: New York, US

Genre: monumental post-rock

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