pg.lost – It’s Not Me, It’s You!
pg.lost are an awesome post-rock band hailing from Sweden. They released It’s Not Me, It’s You! in September of this year, and it’s been pretty well-received in the post-rock community. While their music can be said to be more typical of the genre, they add an “umph” to it that cannot be denied to be quite enticing. I would consider this album very much in the same vein as post-rock legends Explosions in the Sky, so that you can get an idea of how good this album is.
Six songs range from six and a half minutes to double that time, all nicely arranged in a way that is not meant to sound like one long track, but rather smartly placed to build upon a sequence of emotion and tone–from mellow and pensive, to brooding and uneasy, to a full blast of hardcore.
The instrumentation is very typical of post-rock, as well–you have your “bare essential” instruments of the guitar, synths, and drums that work with the quiet-loud dynamic. The beauty, I think, is in the “loud” dynamic. It’s hard to feel shortchanged with pg.lost because once it gets loud, it’s loud. The heavy distortion and percussion work is just absolutely amazing and breath-taking. “Jonathan” is the example of how good the percussion work is on this album. I don’t know much about drums in general, so describing it would deprive it of its beauty, so I guess you could just listen to the MP3 to get what I mean. But let’s just say that without the percussion, the song would be pretty average.
All of the tracks on this record is amazing (as if I haven’t said that enough). My favourite has to be “Maquina.” It starts off with a simple guitar melody, where it is slowly accompanied by a separate melody of the synths. Just before the three minute mark, percussions are added, combining all instruments, giving the track a nice ethereal-like tone to it. Then right before the five minute mark, the track progresses unexpectedly to a completely different sound with heavily distorted chords to bring it back to the melody in another light.
I definitely recommend listening to pg.lost’s It’s Not Me, It’s You! It’s proven to be a very popular album in the post-rock community so far, and it definitely holds that merit. You won’t be disappointed if you enjoy the more mainstream post-rock, since the record doesn’t exactly shy away from it but does add its own flavour.
pg.lost – Maquina
pg. lost – Pascal’s Law
pg. lost – Jonathan
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