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Rapid Log: 013

I'll fill the next Rapid Log list with five albums from my favorite genre, post-rock. There are three big names here: Long Distance Calling, Mogwai, and We Lost the Sea. But is that a guarantee that their output will sound good to my ears? Let's find out.

Felperc - Cognitive Dissonance (2025)

Production: 9/10

Composition: 9/10

Tracklist:

1. Finally... 7.5/10

2. Corruption is over 7.5/10

3. The trees won't burn 8/10

4. No poverty 8.5/10

5. Wars will end 8/10

6. ... peace 9.5/10

OVERALL: 80+/100

Long Distance Calling - The Flood Inside (2013)

Production: 9/10

Composition: 8.5/10

Tracklist: 

1. Nucleus 8/10

2. Inside the Flood 7.5/10

3. Ductus 7.5/10

4. Tell the End 7.5/10

5. Welcome Change 8/10

6. Waves 7.5

7. The Man Within 7.5/10

8. Bleaker 8/10

9. Black Hole (bonus track) 7/10

OVERALL: 80-/100

Mogwai - Come on Die Young (1999)

Production: 8.5/10

Composition: 7/10

Tracklist:

1. Punk rock 7/10

2. Cody 7.5/10

3. Helps both ways 7.5/10

4. Year 2000 Non-Compliant Cardia

5. Kappa 7.5/10

6. Waltz for Aidan 7/10

7. May Nothing But Happiness Come Through Your Door 7/10

8. Oh! How The Dogs Stack Up 6.5/10

9. Ex-cowboy 7.5

10. Chocky 7.5/10

11. Christmas Steps 6/10

12. Punk rock/Puff daddy/Antichrist 7/10

OVERALL: 70/100

Sleep Summit - Change (2026)

Production: 9/10

Composition: 8.5/10

Tracklist:

1. Instructions for disappearing 7.5/10

2. Tides 6.5/10

3. Rearrangement 8/10

4. An open door 7/10

5. The dark 8/10

6. Almost human 9/10

7. Borrowed shadow 7.5/10

8. Before we move again 8/10

OVERALL: 80-/100

We Lost the Sea - Departure Song (2015)

Production: 9/10

Composition: 8.5/10

Tracklist:

1. A Gallant Gentleman 8/10

2. Bogatyri 7.5/10

3. The Last Dive of David Shaw 7.5/10

4. Challenger part 1 - Flight 7.5/10

5. Challenger part 2 - A Swan Song 9/10

OVERALL: 80/100

Comments

From the data above, Felperc—who come from Vienna and sound quite unfamiliar—actually took the top spot because the track titles and the emotional nuance on several songs truly resonate with my life in a country that's starting to look like it's collapsing. "Finally corruption is over, the trees won't burn, no poverty, wars will end, and ... peace." A hope that nearly everyone wants to achieve, right?

Then what's the difference with Sleep Summit? This Hungarian band incorporates electronic elements, which lowered their score—like on the interlude "Tides"—whereas the piano on other tracks has the opposite effect, sometimes featuring heavy riffs as heard in "Rearrangement." So, they're fairly relevant to bands like If These Trees Could Talk, The Abyss Inside Us, Ranges, The Last Sighs of the Wind, Sleepmakeswaves and the like. As for Felperc, they might also appeal to fans of Mono, Explosions in the Sky, Caspian, We Lost the Sea, and so on.

The veteran Mogwai clearly wins in terms of longevity, but personally, Come on Die Young still feels relatively lightweight in its crescendo delivery, with no standout character—definitely not as noisy as Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Yeah, fair enough. An older release. Then there's Long Distance Calling, which piqued my curiosity six years ago through the cover of their album Boundless, but this particular release turned out to be a bit off the mark. They lean closer to progressive rock and feature vocals, though the best moments come when they collaborate with Vincent Cavanagh and Petter Carlsen on "Welcome Change," because it feels more emotional and atmospheric.

Last is We Lost the Sea. This Australian band was part of my early wave of discovering post-rock and browsing Bandcamp. Although ultimately only the opener "A Gallant Gentleman" and the closer "Challenger Part 2 – A Swan Song" truly clicked with me, the conceptual inspiration behind each track title is highly commendable. Among them: the sacrifice of Captain Lawrence Oates during the Antarctic expedition, the Bogatyrs who dealt with the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Australian cave diver David Shaw recovering Deon Denver's body in South Africa's Bushmansgat Cave, and the destruction of the Challenger space shuttle in 1986, which claimed the lives of its seven crew members.

Fascinating, isn't it? Even though most of it is instrumental, post-rock truly offers a unique feel and perspective unlike any other genre—and now it's been roughly eight years since I first got into it.

I am post-rock. That is all.

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