When the heaviness comes rolling in, it arrives as a slow implosion rather than an outburst. It's menacing and very Turpentine Valley! The tone is dense and oppressive and totally addictive. It’s within this push and pull, between tenderness and sheer mass, that List finds its power

Throughout this record, the narrated vocals are striking. They don’t tell the story so much as guide you through it. They hover between poem and testimony. Around them, the band builds dramatic contrasts using warm chords against sudden shadows, delicate ambient layers giving way to surges of guitars that feel like the emotional dam finally being released

The entire album has been re-recorded and subtly re-imagined, carrying a gentle shimmer of modern-day EF while preserving the haunting nostalgia that made the original so beloved. It feels like opening a time capsule only to find the memories inside somehow clearer, brighter, and more fragile than you remembered.

In the end, Coastlands stands as the band’s most transformative statement to date. If I’m completely honest, it took me the last four weeks to finally feel this album and understand where the band were going with it. Once it clicks with you, then you’ll see that it’s a deeply textural, and beautifully gazed reimagining of their identity, proving that reinvention can be both risky, but ultimately for the band, personally rewarding.

With their trademark French flair twisted by a dark, cinematic undercurrent, Maudits deliver another release that's refined yet delightfully unsettling.

SPERAMVS MELIORA || RESVRGET CINERIBVS is heaviness with purpose. It’s vast, overwhelming, and emotionally harrowing at times. Drawing from the sprawling bleakness of Tunnel Blanket-era This Will Destroy You, Through A Glass Darkly shape their sound into something both punishing and transcendent

Jakob’s Solace is many things, but to me its perfection. It's a towering example of how post-rock can be both completely immersive and devastatingly visceral. It’s a record that captures the vast emotional spectrum of the post- genre with rare precision. Released in 2006, it remains a benchmark for instrumental music and is an album that conjures up expansive sonic landscapes while never losing its human core.

Plat de resistance was born out of unrest and is a brooding reflection of a world teetering on the brink, where war is no longer an abstract backdrop but an altogether harrowing reality.  With such a heavy theme, 18 Seconds tighten their grip on atmosphere and weight, weaving dense, ominous textures that echo the urgency of change and the defiance of resistance

From Etne to the Edge of Space is the title of the new album and in simple terms it’s a slow-burn odyssey through the cosmos, high on space and yet still remaining intimate, nostalgic and fresh

Musically, King Nine is a hauntingly sentimental record that unfolds like a slow-burning film. Every track is awash in brooding pianos, soft, swelling guitars, and delicate electronics that intertwine to create a sense of desolation and fragile beauty