Sometimes an album is able to capture a moment in time and this EP by Phoenix, Arizona's six piece Hellas Mounds does just that with an instrumental offering of dark, brooding post-rock that reflects the turmoil raging in my mind. The songs build from glacially paced emotive moods to crashing crescendos reminiscent of GYBE! and the best of the genre.
Tracklist :
1 Passage I
2 Movement I
3 Movement II
4 Passage II
5 Movement III
A Death Cinematic is a one man project originating from the midwestern United States that features multiple layers of looped guitar and improvisations done with minimal post recording manipulation. The EP begins menacingly and sets the tone for a journey through madness including washes of anger and detuned wonder. The final track opens with amp noise and feedback but gives way to a beautifully simple guitar that awakens emotions long thought dead. I can't end without mentioning the packaging for this disc. A Death Cinematic is an artist of many disciplines and the digipack is entirely hand made with wood veneer, cardboard, artwork, and a poem typed on paper that he constructed. In an increasingly digital era this is a release that I treasure for it's visual and tactile art as well as it's audio.
Tracklist :
1 Your Fate Twisting, Epic In It's Crushing Moments
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3 In The Tumbling Dawn Lights, Their Eyes Fall Frozen Through The Mist And Rain
