Earlier I gave you a heavy Friday song to kick off your weekend with a bang. Now I've got a bit of instrumental post-rock to dial things back to a much more relaxed level of weekend chillitude.
Despite what I've read about This Will Destroy You not much caring for the label "post-rock", a listen to pretty much anything from the band's catalogue confirms that at least some aspects of the label stick. Epic, slow-burn builds, ebbing and flowing musical journeys, and dense mixes of layered instrumentation are all key elements both of This Will Destroy You's sound and the "post-rock" sound as a whole.
But let's forget genres and labels for just a second and focus on one of those building musical journeys. This Will Destroy You have recently released a video for "New Topia", the opening track from last year's Another Language. The song starts out sparse before gradually adding layer upon layer of melody and instrumentation and finally exploding into a dense wall of sound and energy. It's a pretty moving track on its own, but it doesn't hurt that the video is a dynamic, almost psychedelic journey through spiritual and religious symbolism. Give this one a few minutes of undivided attention -- you'll be glad you did.
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