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Sigur Rós Announce North American Tour - Sigur Ros have announced a big set of dates for North America and Japan, in support of the newly hatched alnum Me su eyrum vi spilum endalaust. They're streaming the album right now from their web site via their Dt thing. It's the fifth album for Sigur Ros, and they've...

Mogwai The Hawk is Howling -

It’s been a while since I last really listened to Mogwai, around the time of Come On Die Young. Along with the more po-faced Godspeed You! Black Emperor they always were one of the few exponents of post-rock to actually manage to make their instrumental musings engaging and meaningful. They’ve...

Explosions In The Sky - Two hours of music, roughly five songs played. In most cases, youd feel pretty short changed, but with a line up of Explosions In The Sky and Eluvium you wouldnt expect any different. One man sonic magician Matthew Cooper starts the nights proceedings with his looping, minimalist soundscapes; its not...

Godspeed You! Black Emperor Split - Post-rock archetypes Godspeed You! Black Emperor, citing an "existential freakout" over the Iraq war as the reason for their demise. Speaking to Drowned In Sound, founder Efrin Menuck went into detail on the split, revealing that personal tensions may also have contributed. ...

Into the Blue Again - After putting himself under a strict house arrest for about six months to write, Jimmy LaValle has offered up something fresh and new from his one man project, The Album Leaf. The success of his last album triggered a relentless year-and-a-half of touring, so by the time he was done...

Rest - '55:12' was a very conflicting record for me. Essentially, Gregor Samsa is a heavily post-rock leaning Low tribute band and '55:12' perfectly encapsulated that. Although, that record is certainly a great listen the movement and song structure is painfully obvious. The pick ups in tempo, the crescendos, every moment of...

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