Echthros - lyov (2011)

Assonance
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9.0

/Dark ambient, Ambient, Neoclassical, Sludge metal, Ethereal, Spoken word, Avant-metal, Crossover, Post-metal/

Comment: this issue originates by Echthros (Bartosz Frąckowiak) from Poland who provides 6 long-running progressions (over 54 minutes in all) where orthodox church hymns are crossed with more or less ominous spoken word/and moaning snippets and ethereal floatation/or settling on more abrasive, noiseful/sludge/doom guitar blow-ups. It is solemn and a little ghastly simulatenously, i.e masterfully accentuated and channelized. Altogether, it is the intriguing appearance from its very start to the ending point.

The Light Tracer - Landspace of My Flesh (2011)

Bandcamp
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9.2

/Shoegaze, Indie rock, Space rock, Chamber rock, Post-rock, Instrumental rock, Dream pop/

Comment: resonating, highly spatial progressions are created on ground of amplifying and ascending guitar layers and guitar fingerpicking-headed motives. The best example of how to create the harmonies is laid out at What The Fuck Mogwai Means (sic!). In a word, massive and exultant by any means. However, there is a joint point connecting all these 4 tracks into the whole - clattery paces which used to incessantly trash around.The last track sounds like a melancholic chamber rock looming being deeply drowned in its enthralling self-pitiness. You can draw parallels upon the likes of Vlor, and Spell 336. Ultimately, the result is outstanding which deserves to be got more listening times.