Less than a month until Post Harbor's BBR debut "They can't hurt you if you don't believe them" is available!
It's officially out 2/23, but we hope all of you show up to pick it up early on Thursday, February 11th when we celebrate the release at Neumos in Seattle. Other bands playing include: The Oregon Donor, The Soft Hills, and Daniel G. Harmann & the Trouble Starts!
You can hear a few tracks up on the band's myspace now.
Also, the record has been receiving a ton of great reviews so far:
"This album has all of the post rock idioms rolled into one: guitar noodling, buildups, atmospheric pieces, overarching melodies, heavy parts, quiet parts, heavy/quiet/heavy parts, all of it. The members of Post Harbor studied post-rock, took it apart and put it back together expertly... set the bar for best album of 2010."
- Independentclauses.com
"When it comes to post rock, a band's material is often judged by how much atmosphere it is able to create and what kind of impact it has on a listener. Considering how many acts have joined the genre in recent years, those two traits have been able to make or break which ones become staples and which ones fade away. Seattle's Post Harbor is one of the latest post rock acts that are capable of making an impression, as their sophomore effort features stunning arrangments that are sure to stick with listeners for some time. If you're a fan of the genre, this is a disc you must add to your collection."
- Cosmosgaming.com
"Post Harbor not only blur the line between genres they transcend boundaries... pushes the limits with amibitious arrangements creating gorgeous and complex musical landscapes. Expansive and reflective without compromising the band's focused precision; Post Harbor has the ability to transport the listener to another time and place."
- Music is Amazing
"If there's any hope for what people generally refer to as 'post-rock', its in the hands of bands like Seattle's Post Harbor. A far cry from the vocal-free-gain-level exercises of much of the previous decade's post rock, Post Harbor use well timed vocals, visceral songwriting and pacing, and a wide yet consistent palette of sounds to stake their claim... This album reminded me why I fell in love with this style of music in the first place, and I'm surprised and refreshed its the first 2010 album I've really taken to."
- When We Were Younger & Better
"...an ambitious effort, comparable to that of The Appleseed Cast's 'Low Level Owl' series in a way that conventional indie songwriting is thrown out the window in favour of a fuller more varied and epic approach. If you can spare 50 minutes of your time on this record then you will be heavily rewarded for doing so..."
- Writing in Basic (UK)
"...reminiscent of such a fantastic sound... a very exceptional masterpiece!"
- STM Online (Japan)
1 comment:
i stumbled across their music on line a year or so ago. i enjoyed it immensely. about a month ago a song of theirs popped into my head from praenumbra on my way home from work. that night i checked to see what they were up to and heard a few tracks from the new album and was blown away. to make a long story short. on the 10th my dog and i were stuck in seattle on a layover. we were on our way to japan for work, it just happend that post harbor was releasing their cd the next night. we ended up staying an extra day. we were not disappointed.
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