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upcdownc - And The Battle Is Won
What is it about the new generation of post-rockers that impels them to employ such spell-check crippling appellations? Last week we had 65daysofstatic and now it's the absolute ball ache of Upcdowncleftcrightcabc+start... DO THEY NOT TEACH PARENTHESIS TO KIDS THESE DAYS?! Moving away from their moniker for now (which we presume is a favourite computer game cheat code), Upcdownc... indulge fully in all the orchestral stature and gale-force rock tendencies we've come to expect from the likes of Mogwai and Shellac. The kind of HUGE that caps lock simply can't do justice to, tracks like 'Not of the Fallen' and 'Stand Shadowless Like Silence' broil upwards in an Eos-enhanced dawn of soaring strings, subterranean bass and sweaty riffage that could fell a marauding army. With the former single 'Shadow' still a soaring edict on the power of traditional post-rock (it essentially sounds like a Christmas song being torn to bits by Hades), 'And The Battle Is Won' proves that a silly name never stopped anyone...




























