Unsympathetic genre breaking is postcards from new zealand’s (all lowercase please) speciality. The faceless outfit thrive on distorting expectations and delivering the unpredictable through dynamic soundscapes and progressive use of instrumentation. Since forming in 2008, postcards from new zealand have released 21 full lengths and an EP through Bandcamp. The new album, city islands, is their first release with Mandrone Records.
The band tell us a little about it:
city islands is the third chapter in a saga called ‘we watched them devour’ that started back in 2017. the music follows a group of survivors after “something” came down from the sky and devoured life and society as we know them, leaving only ruins behind. it may not come as a surprise then that the whole album was conceived and recorded during lockdown days in november 2020.
on chapter two we focused on void, erosion and nothingness so we thought to balance that out in volume three with some full-on saturation, building on layering and space sculpting to lead the listener through scenes from a crumbled city on the ocean.
city islands is released on July 2nd
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