You might have seen our recent release, The State Of Trans-Tasman Post Rock, a free compilation featuring our favourite post-rock bands from Australia and New Zealand.
Well, we thought we’d take the chance to take you a little deeper into our back catalog.
Here are some of our favourite post rock releases on the label:
We Lost The Sea – Departure Songs
There is no other release we could start this list with. We Lost The Sea’s Departure Songs has become a global phenomenon.
The album is a tribute to the people who have lost their lives attempting to further human knowledge and progress. Tragic, cinematic, emotive, it is simply one of the most creative and powerful post-rock albums of all time
For fans of: Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Mogwai
hubris. – Metempsychosis
With Metempsychosis, Swiss post-rock out hubris. have landed one of our top selling releases of all time – and it’s easy to see why.
hubris. have developed a technical, synth-landen form of post-rock that draws as equally from Nils Frahm as it does MONO or Long Distance Calling. Masterfully produced and executed, the follow up to Metempsychosis has been hotly anticipated since its release 12 months ago.
HELU – Varisema
In my view, no one is pushing post-rock forward like HELU.
These guys have been my biggest inspiration as a musician in recent years. With little more than bass, drums and guitar, this trio create intricate and otherworldly sonic shapes. Trance-inducing, polyrhythmic, harmonically-rich – apparently you can have it all. And live? They are untouchable.
For fans of: The Necks, Schnellertollermeier, Dawn Of Midi
Bear The Mammoth – Years Under Glass
I find myself returning to this album again and again. Melbourne’s Bear The Mammoth plumb rich sonic territory, with songs so smooth and organic that you’d never realise they’d just snuck in a strange time signature.
For fans of: Mogwai, Red Sparrowes
Ground Patrol – Geophone
If you know anything about us as a label, you would know that we like some pretty out-there stuff. We tend to like the artists who are way out there on the fringes – the ones who take risks, or try and pull off some crazy musical concept.
Well, let me introduce you to Ground Patrol, featuring (in my opinion) one of Australia’s greatest drummers, Alon Ilsar. Along with Kyle Sanna, this duo explores across trance-inducing loops, phasing, micro-rhythmic manipulations and improvisation. This truly is music from the future. Or, failing that, some other dimension.
For fans of: Hella, Battles, Lightning Bolt
Lisathe – Lisathe
Three excellent musicians from Sydney’s jazz scene playing stripped down covers of Ásgeir, Jófríður Ákadóttir and Jóhann Jóhannsson.
Do yourself a favour. This is as spacious and cinematic as it gets. A true gem.
For fans of: Bill Frisell, Charlie Haden, Daniel Lanois
