Jakob Sines (Vinyl, Mylene Sheath Records, 2014) ****
Genre: Post rock, prog metal
Places I remember: Real Groovy Records
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Safety in Numbers (Solace)
Gear costume: Saint (Solace); Emergent (Sines)
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Active compensatory factors: Jakob are from my neck of the woods - Hawke's Bay in New Zealand. Jo, a colleague at a previous school, recommended them to me and she was spot on (as usual).
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Safety in Numbers (Solace)
Gear costume: Saint (Solace); Emergent (Sines)
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Jakob are a post rock trio, containing Jeff Boyle on guitar, Jason Johnston on drums, and Maurice Beckett on bass. No vocalists in Jakob! Solace is their third studio album.
A local critic sums up Jakob's approach well: 'within the space of a song they can move from brittle and shimmering beauty into big, lush waves of noise, flecked with distortion, and unexpected climactic crescendos'.
Solace hangs together well as an album - there is plenty of variety within the parameters outlined above. The closest touch points would be Explosions In The Sky and Isis (who they have supported on tour).
Their 4th (and most recent) album was Sines from 2014. Many consider it their masterpiece - check out this review from The NZ Herald's Graham Reid!
Where do they all belong? I always keep an eye out for their first two albums. Word out there was that a sixth album would be released 2023-2024 but nothing yet.
Where do they all belong? I always keep an eye out for their first two albums. Word out there was that a sixth album would be released 2023-2024 but nothing yet.
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