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(2018) God Is an Astronaut - Epitaph
Review:
Irish, instrumental and holders of one of the best band names ever, have sat near the top of the European post-rock ambient pile for almost 16 years. It might be a small pile, but God Is an Astronaut have always stood out. Maybe it’s their ability to write engaging ambient tracks under eight minutes in length, or the fact that they’ve always known how to liven up a slow song with dynamics and distortion, while never straying into the nebulous “post-black metal” territory of Deafheaven and Chelsea Wolfe.
Starting with tasteful piano and ending with scattered programmed drums, the title track of Epitaph sets the tone nicely. It’s cinematic, big-sounding, and the wordless vocals in the song’s dying moments act as icing on the cake.
The rest of the album follows suit, excluding the stop-start riffing on “Mortal Coil” and “Séance Room,” which shows that God Is An Astronaut might be taking some influence from America’s great post-rockers Russian Circles. It’s good to hear progression from what has sometimes been a creatively stagnant act, and God Is An Astronaut are definitely improving. They’ve yet to top All Is Violent, All Is Bright, but Epitaph is the closest they’ve come yet.
Tracklist:
01. Epitaph.flac
02. Mortal Coil.flac
03. Winter Dusk-Awakening.flac
04. Seance Room.flac
05. Komorebi.flac
06. Medea.flac
07. Oisín.flac
Summary:
Country: Ireland
Genre: post-rock
Media Report:
Source : CD
Format : FLAC
Format/Info : Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : ~ 552-798 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits |
