Sleepmakeswaves

Love of Cartography (2014) ...

Dreamlike, post-rock instrumentals on a monumental scale ...Loud, fast and bulbous ...

Love of Cartography (complete) ...

1 Perfect Detonator 00:00
2 Traced In Constellations 5:56
3 Singularity 10:47
4 Emergent 11:45
5 Great Northern 20:15
6 The Stars Are Stigmata 25:25
7 A Little Spark 31:24
8 How We Built The Ocean 34:35
9 Something Like Avalanches 41:37
10 Your Time Will Come Again 47:08

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...the centerpiece of Love Of Cartography is the stunning eight-minute epic Emergent, which is a prime example of how sleepmakeswaves have pushed themselves for their second record. The song has several different phases and takes the listener on an impressive journey, progressing from a dreamy, sparse soundscape through to relentless guitars and a wall-of-sound at its conclusion.
Then there’s the brutal The Stars Are Stigmata, which bassist Alex Wilson has already described as possibly one of the “darkest and most aggressive” songs that the band have ever written. It’s new territory for the quartet and also clearly helped by the guiding hand of DiDia, with pummeling guitar riffs and drum machines giving the song an almost sinister edge. However, heavy middle of the record is quickly subverted by the sparse beauty of A Little Spark, which delivers so much by doing so little... musicomh.com ...

Warped Passages recommends ... 

Emergent >>>>  Great Northern ...