“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.”
Turn on, tune in, drop out: peejmudd delivers a cinematic post-classical journey through melancholic swells and weightless melodies for fans of Ólafur Arnalds and Sigur Rós, while j.demar sheds past creative restraints with reverb-soaked, hypnotic dream-pop carrying ritualistic vocals reminiscent of Leonard Cohen. John Titor's Time Machine invites you to blast your mind open with a 17-minute prog-inflected post-rock odyssey, and Mildred unfurls a sprawling 2-hour genre-bending treatise on the anti-christ at a neo-Abrahamic apocalypse in Montana. Daniel Castanos conjures dark-ambient dread with his debut concept EP tracing a doomed cult to mass tragedy, and Solid Blood brings math-y, dreamy, emotive post-rock indie from Rue Defence founder Graham W. Bell.
“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.”
“Kill Your Dreams is less about the death of 'dreams,' perhaps, than about the death of nostalgia, perhaps even more… the death of any illusion that the past can ever be better than it was.”
““Firmament” by Third Man Syndrome is a three-part epic that builds slowly, blends powerful guitar riffs with orchestral harmonies, and ends with a quiet pause before an explosive finale.”
“'As I’m listening to Alchemical Task, I feel like I’m gaining some esoteric wisdom handed down by forgotten ancestors whose only way to communicate with me is energetic.'”
“Surrounded by the decay of post-punk style, and the celestial aura of feminine vocals inspired by folk tendencies, Lore City has created their own music world.”