after hearing the silence kit's latest album pieonear i sat down to figure out how many russian bands i had heard. and to be honest, tatu was the only one i could recall. so in short i was a little shocked by how good silence kit is. pionear consists of three songs - with an average duration of about 22 minutes - so, yes, it has got post-rock written all over it. it is mostly instrumental, starting out with a sort of cabaresque piano that shortly gives way to an exploding guitar riff that reminds me of radiohead peppered with a dose of kyuss. then we get some more quiet parts on par with mono's prettiest moments and some more loud parts of shredding guitars and strings that sound equally frightening and beautiful. if this does not end up on my list of the very best albums of the year this year will indeed have been amazing.
the song above is in .ogg format (plays, e.g., in winamp). more song, including all of silence kit's self-titled debut, can be found here.
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