post rock / math rock
Very good and meticulously executed, with prominently intense and extensively detailed melodies, despite its conciseness, being only half an hour in length, Navigation, released by Finnish alternative/ post rock group NYOS, is a formidable album, impeccable beyond any measures. With an eminently distinctive and gracious authorial style, the harmonies are generally lucid and consistent, and excel at the dense propensity evaluated by the lancinating, but firmly calculated rhythms constantly delivered along the way. With six tracks – Harlem, La Playa, Navigator, Bison, I'm a Dream and Icon – Navigation is an interesting experiment in audacity and authenticity, that certainly aggregates new shapes and new forms to instrumental rock as a whole. With a genuine perception of surreal grandiosity, splendidly designed and well-written guitar lines, and a cohesively dense musicality, NYOS has created, on this particularly exciting record, one of the best works of the genre released on the current year.
Like an abruptly intense soundscape that exerts a solid passion upon your heart, Navigation is almost a masterpiece. A little reminiscent on its extraordinary and non-predictable melodies to Danish post rock legendary act The Seven Mile Journey – but only in the most superficial aspects –, NYOS almost develops a formulaic, but marvelously dogmatic timeless motion, that reinvents the harmonious solidity of its own continuous walls of gloriously intense sonorous perceptions. In an infinite ocean of arbitrary calmness, a subtle artistic panorama is unveiled upon you, in a wise and perspicacious definition of stylish grandiosity, where everything is read like a singularly serene sensation yet to be properly deciphered.
With an intelligent, lucid and precise style that has no fear of a high degree of experimentation, NYOS certainly has opened new possibilities for an innovative path of salutary and more gracious arrangements on their genre. With a fulfilling and thoroughly consistent sound that openly elucidates a new form of art, Navigation is a great example of an album that deliberately explores a genuine and sagacious musical intensity, that invariably consecrates the band to a superior status of expansive creativity and originality.
With a splendorous result, Navigation is an album that really deserves all appreciation. Formidable harmonies delivered in a majestic technical efficiency has provided to their audience an astounding result, that has everything necessary to highlight them as the next great promise of the genre on their native country, as well as in the international underground scene.
Wagner
Like an abruptly intense soundscape that exerts a solid passion upon your heart, Navigation is almost a masterpiece. A little reminiscent on its extraordinary and non-predictable melodies to Danish post rock legendary act The Seven Mile Journey – but only in the most superficial aspects –, NYOS almost develops a formulaic, but marvelously dogmatic timeless motion, that reinvents the harmonious solidity of its own continuous walls of gloriously intense sonorous perceptions. In an infinite ocean of arbitrary calmness, a subtle artistic panorama is unveiled upon you, in a wise and perspicacious definition of stylish grandiosity, where everything is read like a singularly serene sensation yet to be properly deciphered.
With an intelligent, lucid and precise style that has no fear of a high degree of experimentation, NYOS certainly has opened new possibilities for an innovative path of salutary and more gracious arrangements on their genre. With a fulfilling and thoroughly consistent sound that openly elucidates a new form of art, Navigation is a great example of an album that deliberately explores a genuine and sagacious musical intensity, that invariably consecrates the band to a superior status of expansive creativity and originality.
With a splendorous result, Navigation is an album that really deserves all appreciation. Formidable harmonies delivered in a majestic technical efficiency has provided to their audience an astounding result, that has everything necessary to highlight them as the next great promise of the genre on their native country, as well as in the international underground scene.
Wagner
