“Instrumental cinematic piano and guitars”
Amid the ruins and reverb of post-rock's most haunted corners: Fighting Kites anthologizes their Post-Rock-Noise-Pop sprawl from Belgium to Australia with a Christmas duet from Benjamin Shaw thrown in for good measure, while immortal ebt conjures a devastatingly beautiful shoegaze album born from a childhood love of long, blissful baths. Daniel Castanos debuts with a dark-ambient concept EP chronicling the miserable fates of a fictional cult's members, and Memory Curse offers a different kind of breakup record through melancholic post-rock. Mildred swings for the fences with a 2-hour genre-bending odyssey about the anti-christ at a neo-Abrahamic apocalypse in Montana.
“The song Ikarus by Third Man Syndrome captures the tension between courage and risk, using a raw instrumental style to reflect the myth's themes of aspiration and the danger of overreach.”