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8/22/2018

Lately Kind of Yeah – Galaxie Depression (2017)




  • Ambient rock 
  • Art rock 
  • Alternative 
  • Minimalism 
  • Experimental rock 
  • Avant-rock 
  • Post-rock

Comment: first of all, this 7-track issue comes out from the US-based imprint Vulpiano Records and contains a couple of long-running compositions (for instance, Resonanz, and Erinnerung reach the mark of 20-minute, Adaptieren even more, clocking in at a 31-minute). Secondly, Vulpiano Records is a home record for some albums by the France-based Natural Snow Buildings, one of the most outstanding artists within the experimental folk/post-folk/New Weird movement. Galaxie Depression does have some common threads with Aldebaran, The Night Country, and The Alpha Centauri due to its minimally changing approach through long progressions while being imbued with spatial instrumental incantations. In true, Lately Kind Of Yeah`s music runs in the vein of (post-)rock music, that`s the main difference. Although it says something there are up many additional elements either. The artist likes to improvise on the guitar by cranking up the volume and crafting intriguing zig-zag-alike patterns and crackling effects as if playing it through a broken amplifier on the instrument. The instrumental incantations are interspersed with enchantingly iterative cycles, wide guitar bows and even ear-deafening outbursts. By listening to Resonanz it is an example of eargasmic music. All the titles are in German and referencing to the nature of a certain track. In a word, there are up fabulous 95 minutes.