NADIRA

Another fantastic debut shot from Munich, Germany. PICTURES FROM NADIRA were founded as a promising post-rock quartet for launching deeply heavy, shoegaze, addictive sound bombs. Their first album "Nadira" has definitely not only dissonance but also extraordinary precision via their distorted instrumental vibes and psychedelic intermediators, and obviously absorbs the audience into the sea bottom. From the very beginning of the titled track, we should be immersed in such a crazy hallucinogenic topnote. Incredible harmonized attacks are quite tempting. "Kawenzmann" is more and more slowtempo, alluring sound hunter for us. The following "Denebula" featuring repetitive phrases of comfort by electropsych guitars reminds us of something like Des Rallizes Denudes, one of Japanese Psych Giants. Smooth melodic texture is cool and charming. Brilliant but complicated guitar ensemble in "Riji al Awa" has mysterious attractiveness (or magic) in the entire album drenched in tranquil atmosphere. The last longest entertainment "Nautilus" possesses colourful, diverse sound solutions - long tone noises, metallic experiments, atmospheric movements, or so ... sounds like they would squeeze all of their musical essence into this song.

In conclusion, cannot deny this album is not so innovative nor creative but their strong intention for post rock should be appreciated. Cheers for wonderful soundscape and well-created debut opus.