In 2011 my friends Tommy and Beth got married in a cool wooden German lodge in the suburbs of Buffalo. The priesty/magic guy presiding over the ceremony spoke about how sophisticated the Greeks were about language and love. The Greeks have six different words for love: eros, philautia, pragma, phillia, ludus and agape. He focused on agape (a spiritual love for all) and that silly sounding word ("ah-gahp-pay") became the word of the night at my table of friends and future wife ("I agape this gin!")
Soon after the wedding I stumbled upon a German post-black metal band named #Lantlos and their album "agape". Too much of a coincidence to pass up. They do a shoe - gaze type black metal thing that I like so I picked up another one of their albums "neon" and I liked them both. In 2014 they released their third album "melting sun" and of course the obsessive collector in me bought it, I was expecting some more of the enjoyable same. This disc hit me like a bolt of lightning. The band had distilled everything I loved about late nineties post-hardcore and Shoegaze into a gloriously produced masterpiece. It's as if Quicksand and My Bloody Valentine had a band baby. I immediately suggested Tommy pick it up and it made both our top pick of the year. We both anxiously await it's follow up. Love when this shit seems predestined. (Though I'm unaware if Beth likes the album at all).
Seriously though, pick this one up immediately.
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