SOLACE

Jakob's Solace, released in 2006 is another excellent instrumental post-rock album with lots of stuff worth hearing. Compared to the previous album, Cale:Drew, this one is much more ambient and more based on soundscapes and atmospheres. The songs aren't as structured; they are more about feelings or moods that take over the songs and and then move them into different directions mostly with build-ups. Although this album is filled with ambience, the songs still have very dynamic sections; A typical song on this album may start with very ambient guitars but slowly you can notice a pattern in the ambience and the song starts to form, and soon the song is dynamic, loud, noisy, angry and very, very dirty. Lonesome is a perfect example of this, but not all songs follow this model, there's variation of course. That's why this album keeps the listener interested throughout the whole 50min. Some songs will start right away with a tight drum beat, but there's always the atmosphere and ambience in the background, always. The album makes you feel as if you were isolated from the real world in this different reality that only leaves space for you and your thoughts and the music. The atmosphere is intense, really.

One thing that this album doesn't have, that for example Cale:Drew has are those moments that gives you the chills you know, that really speak to you, that you really resonate with. Well this is just my subjective opinion, but so is every review, so...

To sum it up, i really recommend this album, and this band overall, if you're into post-rock you'll love this no question about it, if you are wondering what post-rock is all about, you can as well start from here because the song are quite accessible.