Timelapse Aurora - In Defeat, I See the Future (2023)

Timelapse Aurora are from Italy and they create heavily guitar post-rock music with a story to tell. This sci-fi-sounding instrumental music is shown on their first ever album called In Defeat, I See the Future.

The album is described as a "wonderment of space that is both haunting and hypnotic". While their premise suggests a heavy use of electronica in their compositions, the post-rock here is still very guitar-oriented. But the artists prove that they don't have to resort to the sci-fi electronica to make sci-fi music. The very first sounds of the album prove that sci-fi is its important piece with a sampled voice saying about living in 2355 AD, not to mention the interesting, retro-futuristic cover art or track titles that show the artist interest in space exploration. But also the music itself is very often slower, more spacial thanks to the synth sounds and samples, making it a story from somewhere in the vast universe written with very solid post-rock music.

In Defeat, I See the Future costs 5 EUR.

Check: From Mars to Jupiter

Country: Italy

Genre: sci-fi post-rock

Label: Eternal Colossus Records

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Secrets of the Third Planet - The Space Voyage (2021)

The Russian Secrets of the Third Planet already appeared on this blog with an interesting but short EP last year. Now they are proving that there's little they can't do, with a new, space ambient (in a way) album called The Space Voyage.

The origins of this album reach the Moscow Music Week in 2019 when the Moscow-based band presented their own live music for a Soviet sci-fi movie The Space Voyage from 1936. And as you could guess, the now-released new soundtrack is as old-school sci-fi as possible. There's not much of the modern, bass-saturated space ambient here, it is more about tangible, synth and old technology-like sounds. This is a concept album so everything is set in a similar tone, but Don't Worry Mom! may be just the most fitting music to this concept, making me think of the romantic and kind of naive old sci-fi texts by Lem or Asimov.

This retro approach is what clearly makes this album something unique. And tracks like Sleepy Boy, Signal or the noisier ones at the end of the release can easily function outside of the movie-soundtrack frame.

The Space Voyage costs 10 USD.

Secrets of the Third Planet - Only Love Will Save (2020) EN

Check: Signal 

Country: Russia

Genre: old-school space electronica

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Destination Space Station - Hadean (2017) EN

Missouri-based band went for a hunt for new metaphors and to do so, reached the Lem-Asimov-like future and now, released an album combining dreampop and sci-fi. Sci-pop. Even its cover looks like an illustration for classic releases of Lem's prose.

The lyrics adapt concepts from sci-fi literature and mould them into universal metaphors. The first song describes terraforming, converting the surface of other planets so it can serve humans. But it is also about changing situations you end up in, into something "you can stand" on. The second one is a reference to Thera, the antic island with a civilization destroyed by the eruption of a volcano. But the very next one is a come back into the future with restarting a program and radiant lies.

The lyrics are not accompanied by space-like electronic music but very moody and warm dreampop. As if terraforming and space stations were already a part of our reality demanding including into pop music. So... it's a real dreampop from several decades into the future.

"Hadean" goes for only 3 USD.

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Destination Space Station - Hadean (2017) PL

Zespół z Missouri, który w poszukiwaniu nowych metafor wybrał się w lemowo-asimovą przyszłość i wydał właśnie płytę łączącą dreampop i sci-fi. Sci-pop. Nawet okładka płyty wygląda jak ilustracja do klasycznych starych wydań Lema.

Teksty znakomicie adaptują koncepcje z literatury fantastycznej i lepią z nich uniwersalne metafory. Pierwszy utwór opowiada o terraformowaniu, przystosowywaniu powierzchni obcych planet dla ludzi. A także o zmienianiu zastanych sytuacji, tak by można było "na nich stać". Drugi to nawiązanie do Thery, antycznej wyspy z cywilizacją zniszczoną przez wulkan ale już kolejna to powrót w kosmos - o restartowaniu programu i promiennych kłamstwach.

Wszystko to wcale nie jest obudowane kosmiczna elektroniką a bardzo nastrojowym i ciepłym dreampopem. Tak jakby terraforming i kosmiczne podróże były po prostu częścią rzeczywistości. A więc prawdziwy dreampop za kilka dekad.

"Hadean" można mieć za 12 złotych (3 USD).

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