EMBERS

God Is An Astronaut

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Post Rock/Math rock

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3.35 | 18 ratings | 1 reviews | 22% 5 stars

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Studio Album, released in 2024

Songs / Tracks Listing

1. Apparition
2. Falling Leaves
3. Odyssey
4. Heart of Roots
5. Embers
6. Realms
7. Oscillation
8. Prism
9. Hourglass

Line-up / Musicians

- Niels Kinsella / bass
- Torsten Kinsella / guitar, backing vocals, piano, synths
- Lloyd Hanney / drums

With:
- Jo Quail / Cello (6,8)
- Dara O'Brien / sitar, Shamanic drum, Bowed Psaltery, chimes, tanpura (1-3,5,8)
- Jimmy Scanlon / guitar (1,7)
- Sean Coleman / zither, tape echo effects (2)

Releases information

Cover: David Rooney
Label: Napalm Records
Format: Vinyl (Oxblood Black Marble, Translucent Yellow and Violet, Embers / Glow in the Dark, Black), CD, Cassette, Digital
September 6, 2024

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GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT Embers ratings distribution

3.35
(18 ratings)

Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music (22%)
Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection (39%)
Good, but non-essential (28%)
Collectors/fans only (11%)
Poor. Only for completionists (0%)

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Review by Lewian
PROG REVIEWER

Embers is one of these albums I can only give three stars, despite personally liking it more. This is a quality instrumental post rock album, but you'd have to try hard to find anything groundbreaking or even surprising on it. It has a good variety of atmospheres and sounds on it, is well played and well produced. There are many typical post rock crescendos with noisy guitar, bass and drums, but there is also quite a bit of keyboard oriented material, sometimes more electronic and spacious, but sometimes also the piano takes center stage. Motifs are repeated as usual in post rock, but the band took care to introduce change before parts become boring. The speed is mostly low to mid-tempo, and the album overall is rather relaxed, despite some very intense parts. Mogwai and Godspeed You Black Emperor influences are obvious, among some others. The title track may be my favourite here.

I like to listen to this a lot, but then it's a style that I like a lot generally. Maybe also a good album for people who want to know what post rock is, just the genre mainstream, that is, nothing that expands the limits or something. I know a good number of GIAA albums and I can say similar things about all of them. This one has somewhat more variety compared to what else I know, which is of course good (but non-essential).

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