Dark folk explorations with a post-rock spirit.
After three albums of pitch-black alt-folk, Dávid Máko has made a giant forward leap on Vidékek Vannak Idebenn (translation: ‘There Are Landscapes Within’). While the bruised, shadow-bound essence of the Hungarian’s songwriting remains recognisable, the musical backdrop has blossomed into something far more progressive and absorbing.
It begins with Máko’s disembodied presence floating on a sea of feedback and synth drones, before easing into the shimmering guitars and stately, postrock pulse of Flashing Through The Lack Of Light. These are big, resolutely melancholy songs, fuelled by their creator’s infernal fervour. The title track’s incremental build, from deathly quiet to windswept bluster, is an eight-minute goosebumps machine. Liminal is a haunted, drawn-out howl of anguish. The closing Új Hajnal Már Nem Jo starts as…
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