post rock
Colossus is an album released in January 15, by American post rock group Kosatka, from New Haven, Connecticut. A relatively concise record – a little more than half an hour long –, the record has only five tracks: 1) El Ahrairah; 2) Pale Fire; 3) Death Is A Door; 4) The Corsican Stars; 5) Colossus; an exceedingly beautiful and soft work, with a dense and spectral musical layout, the sound displayed in Colossus is simple and direct, yet aggrandizing and fascinating. Flirting discreetly with progressive rock, the guitar lines are multilayered and graceful expansive harmonious features, abundant of colorful tonalities, upon which the most versatile qualities of the music generally departs. With a sensational and ascendant atmosphere whose breathtaking vitalities resonates over its own tempestuous and restless serenity, Kosatka displays a restrained and modest, yet vigorous and passionate style.
With a profound and refined sonorous outlook, Colossus disperses abundant elegance and visceral energy. Despite some stylistic limitations, the melodies are essentially vivid and robust, and showcase a vast degree of technical proficiency. The dynamic configuration of the sound is dilated over its structural sensibilities, that rely its intelligent grace over the fluctuating devices of its marvelously beautiful poetic virtuosities.
While some ordinary commonalities and frivolous discrepancies can be found in their sound, they are all pointless insignificances; Colossus never sounds generic, limited nor predictable. The sound has a singular identity, and a very mature and greatly evolved sense of inherent artistry. The impeccable level of professionalism displayed in the work reveals not only exceedingly proverbial technical skills, but the incontestable fact that the music of Kosatka has an imponderable degree of soul, vitality and essence. All these elements are formidably combined altogether to deliver to the audience peculiar symphonies of majestic elegance, that speaks directly with all the divergent universes present in your soul, in a profoundly humane and cohesive intensity.
The conciseness of the album is also a factor that works in the band’s favor. In the end – after so much simple, but gracious beauty – the audience is left wanting more. The overtly dense, spectacular and impressive dissonant mosaic of elegant melodies of this wonderful work are dispersed over an infinite degree of dissolute placidity, that is never too abstract or impersonal, but on the other hand isn’t restrictive either. With a coherent musical diagram that elucidates the brilliant sagacity of its own nature, Colossus is a creative and splendidly genuine work, strong enough to revitalize the genre with a pristine and pragmatic lucidity.
Wagner
With a profound and refined sonorous outlook, Colossus disperses abundant elegance and visceral energy. Despite some stylistic limitations, the melodies are essentially vivid and robust, and showcase a vast degree of technical proficiency. The dynamic configuration of the sound is dilated over its structural sensibilities, that rely its intelligent grace over the fluctuating devices of its marvelously beautiful poetic virtuosities.
While some ordinary commonalities and frivolous discrepancies can be found in their sound, they are all pointless insignificances; Colossus never sounds generic, limited nor predictable. The sound has a singular identity, and a very mature and greatly evolved sense of inherent artistry. The impeccable level of professionalism displayed in the work reveals not only exceedingly proverbial technical skills, but the incontestable fact that the music of Kosatka has an imponderable degree of soul, vitality and essence. All these elements are formidably combined altogether to deliver to the audience peculiar symphonies of majestic elegance, that speaks directly with all the divergent universes present in your soul, in a profoundly humane and cohesive intensity.
The conciseness of the album is also a factor that works in the band’s favor. In the end – after so much simple, but gracious beauty – the audience is left wanting more. The overtly dense, spectacular and impressive dissonant mosaic of elegant melodies of this wonderful work are dispersed over an infinite degree of dissolute placidity, that is never too abstract or impersonal, but on the other hand isn’t restrictive either. With a coherent musical diagram that elucidates the brilliant sagacity of its own nature, Colossus is a creative and splendidly genuine work, strong enough to revitalize the genre with a pristine and pragmatic lucidity.
Wagner
