Do you know this feeling when you accidentally stumble across a new band, start listening to their album and … then you fall in love with their music? Well, this is what happened to me when I discovered the band Her Name is Calla. HNIC is a post-rock band from England which was founded in 2004 and consists of the following members:
Sophie Green: Violin, vocals
Tom Morris: Lead Vocals, piano, guitar, banjo
Adam Weikert: Drums, organ, banjo, mandolin, piano, bass
Tieman Welch: Bass
Their sound can be described as powerful and haunting, elaborate, expressive, almost illustrative and apocalyptical. This music truly lets the calm meet the storm. HNIC is the wolf and the sheep at the same time. Soft parts are followed by really rough interpretations, while noise sounds are pulsating in the background. Dramatic tristesse is paired with soft melancholy. Unstable like the sea, torn like the sky when the storm is raging across the ocean. Untouchable like the highest of all mountains.
As you probably already noticed, I really fell in love with this band. I can only recommend giving this awesome post-rock a try because HNIC is one of the few post-rock bands which incorporate vocals into their music. And yet the songs are way longer than average vocal songs, which is typical of post-rock. The debut album impressed me with a length of 50 minutes although only 6 songs were included! Nevertheless, the songs never felt tedious and overly long because each played sound seems important. This music really moved me.
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