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Gregor Samsa

June 1st, 2006

Gregor Samsa
55:12

[The Kora Records; 2006; Post-Rock]

I’ve been on a bit of a post-rock kick lately. Maybe it’s because it goes so nicely with the warm Texas evenings. Or maybe it’s because I’d choose atmospherics over riffage anyday. Whatever the case may be, I can always stand to listen to some Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Tortoise or Bark Psychosis, but sometimes new bands that loosely fall under the “Post-Rock” umbrella take a little warming up to. There are a couple however that I’ve been meaning to tip you off to*. The first being Gregor Samsa’s full length debut, 55:12.

They have more variety than many of their fellow genre-mates, but not to the point that they lose direction. Their use of rock instrumentation in a decidely un-rock manner undoubtedly ties them to a genre that many are post-tired-of, but their gentle fluctuation between deep and dark and soft and spacious combined with the lulling boy/girls vocals finds a happy place in my headphones. It’s like a fresh bud has sprouted along a dying branch of the genre tree… somewhere between Mogwai and the tip where the sun is still shining on it.

*I’ve been a little behind on this one, it came out earlier this spring, but it’s the perfect lazy summer soundtrack.

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