Articles by Gareth Watkin
Music that lingers on far after you’ve finished listening, that truly indulges in pure unbridled existentialism.
It’s perhaps akin to watching a monument burn down to the ground in the pitch black of night in a majesty of flames stretching upwards, the power of something being destroyed in a somehow beautiful way.
A cosmic journey into worlds new and unknown, where nothing is predictable, where all rules are thrown out the windows into the streets of Omegaville, and where everyone of a certain disposition is sure to have a truly wonderful time.
it still has the capacity to amaze and astound in its wonderfully beautiful syncopated and complex simplicity.
An incredibly rich tapestry of detail, one that transcends the typical formalities of ambient music in the hope of creating a much richer landscape
It is music that has the power to soothe and lull the listener in thick wavy soundscapes that wrap around you in a warming gentle glow
An album that throws us into the foray of a human body experience, with the processed percussion based on those human time clocks influencing our own bodies, moving our own hearts to a hurried tense pace as droning saxophone performances add layers of emotion and depth to the experience.
This may be seen as a wonderful return to form, and simultaneously, an advancement of their new style.
Electronic layers seem switch from support to sabotage of the music, the processed clarinet creates something hauntingly beautiful that is expressed in whole album.
Pissing Stars offers us an incredible throw of emotion and feeling as we’re dragged through a world that through all the chaos, confusion, destruction and death, still displays the most beautiful of emotion in the most extraordinary of ways.
Sometimes you get a band that not only nail down their influences perfectly, but even go as far to create a work of art that feels familiar to those influences, whilst having an incredible edge that greatly sets it apart and allows it to stand on its own merit.
Feels much like being thrown into an ever darkening room, where all the light slowly dissipates until there is only a voice calling out in the thick black darkness, desperate to express those unbearable clouding thoughts
The result is of course that quintessential post-rock experience, one that builds up with a fevered ferocity and urgency, whilst featuring qualities that make it seem a little more modern and up-dated.
A less-is-more approach gives the album a very dreamy ethereal quality as we slowly get pulled into the waves of ambient drones
Kowalsky’s approach to composition has resulted in an album that is incredibly inviting and lovely, and one that sticks around well after its finished, giving those who listen with rapt attention a wonderful and warm presence that elevates mood to something comfortable.
EP releases of this nature are always a delight when they achieve exactly what they need to, which more often than not is serving as an introduction to the band in question.
Bustling with life and activity as everything rushes and zooms past, feeling oddly organic at times yet distinctly clinical and empty at others
What makes it all the more powerful is just how beautiful and emotive the tracks all are, how it all expresses an incredible range of emotion and feeling whilst still having a powerful level of impact in its sentiment.







