ἈNÁΓKH

COLLAPSE is this French group that does heavy prog chamber music! A music between psyche, post-rock and heavy prog, with a disconcerting sweetness, influenced by the post-rock genre and groups like PORCUPINE TREE, ARCHIVE and MOGWAI. I will add the KING CRIMSON dinos of course in view of this heavy, unhealthy, avant-garde sound that they were able to breathe into the musical world. 'ἈN​Á​Γ​KH' is their latest baby, unpronounceable and having taken care of PA badly!

'Spiral Down' post-doom, 'Anima Anceps' more soaring and hypnotic as the post can be and 'Yōkai' in a porcupine and crimsonian vein imprint a cinematic sound, you know what could go on film strip, with a heavier, gripping sound, more in the Cadbury spirit. '2 = 8' arrives as a dark/intimate interlude, a musical moment to meditate on. The voices in various languages, yes it's not just French, add to the solemn and introspective character. 'Belle De Nuit' and 'Ljómi' return to this universe-country where the music is elaborate, changing and expressive, nervous with this powerful riff; enough not to take it as 'chamber music' in the evening; much more like a moment of introspection, brief, singular and hypnotic. 'Lotus' arrives as a second interlude, gripping muffled bass, ethereal notes, for a moment I think back to this PINK FLOYD intro with this roaring bass; nervous little title well to wake up the synapsal meanders. 'Ἀνάγκη' at the country start then wandering on arid lands where the wind turns into a blizzard and 'Mỹ Hoa with a more marked post-rock sound, like an ice cathedral.

COLLAPSE small group will become big; a 4th album which struck me for its cover, yes I still stop at this detail; convolutions, airy, dark, heavy, enlightened musical tracks, a sound outside the system which is not to displease. (To listen loud one night)