If the previous album, my first encounter with the band, It Will Come Out of Nowhere, was a dark and delicious affair, a place of pummelled beats and raw and relentless grooves, their latest one is the perfect continuation of the story.
Veil Lifter, their fourth album, finds us back in the industrial sludge that typifies their music, that place where the sound of urban mechanisation and angular abrasiveness collides with the swampy rock ooze of the sonic wastelands. But that is only part of their musical story. Such might be the broad landscape that their music is the product of, but it is the finer details found within the songs structure and style that move Post Death Soundtrack music beyond the reach of their peers.
Details such as the focused guitar passages and lulling lows that break up the walls of noise that make up The Die is Cast, the anthemic and almost infectious lyrical contagion of Icy Underground, the primal swagger that takes Lowdown Animal out of the realms of proto-metal and recasts it as an alternative blues piece of the heaviest order, and the intense and incendiary crescendos that form the peaks and platforms of Burrowing Down the Spine.
Sure, it’s an album of edge and menace, intense heat and unbearable pressure, but it is full of creativity and intelligent sonic moves. With each of these clever motifs or unexpected sonic tangents, with every genre-hopping moment or deviation from the norms of such music, they take one step away from the pack, the mundane copists and also-rans and move one step into the realm of gloriously original music. And there are a lot of these moments—a lot!
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[…] fifth album from Vancouver’s post-punk, darkwave, and trip-goth experimentalists, Post Death Soundtrack, is a grand affair in every sense of the word. At 30 tracks, it obviously crams a lot in, in terms […]