ED "Forest"

Country: Russia
Sub Genre: Instrumental Math Rock, Post Rock
Label: Edils Recordings
Release date: May 12, 2014
Tracklist: 

1. Intro 01:24
2. Tropic 02:27
3. Road 02:47
4. 7 03:54
5. Africa 03:35
6. Travolta 03:23
7. Trains 03:40
8. Forest 03:36
9. Salamander 04:44

Line-up: 
Maxim Sakovich - guitar
Konstantin - guitar
Oleg Tirskij - drums
Anatolij Zabrovskij - bass

Description/Reviews: 

This is hefty, frightfully imaginative music, and seems an almost honourably respectful nod to those who paved the math road before them. Here, the frigid calm of the American pioneers of the genre and the adolescent enthusiasm of their Japanese counterparts are all rolled into one for a short, syrupy helping of those gloriously elaborate set ups and familiarly offhand drops. With all the sophistication and charm of early Don Caballero, the band take on twenty-nine minutes of nothing but tasteful, reticent grooves, framed by absolutely prodigal finger-tapping, a musical technique that, until hearing Forest, I never imagined I would find genuinely moving. Yet that is where the similarities end; that is what duly separates ED from the math rock pioneers. Where they had been ice-cold and disaffected to an almost impenetrable magnitude, this Russian four-piece, as unusual as it may seem, create genuinely beautiful music. In its moments of less precarious intricacy, Forest is soaring, it’s hopeful, it’s melancholy and it’s just magnificent. Take “Tropic”, while frisky and fiery, the piece preserves a dashing elegance that ED’s contemporaries simply do not possess even at the best of times. “Trains” is math rock at its absolute finest, and that is no exaggeration; even behind the exquisite construction and elegant execution can be heard a real, unmistakeable heartbeat, and such a powerful expression of such delicate emotions is an almost unfathomably devastating weapon to bring to an already truly exhaustive genre.

 Read the full review by Gabriel Power at by-volume.com

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