Blog: LocalCut

I hate it when a band falls through the cracks. Or, more accurately, when I fail to give my proper due. So consider this my sincere apology for failing to really say much of anything about How to Kill a King , the new record from Portland's best post-instrumental rockers AristeiA. Everything about "Feedback King"—from the title-that's-so-perfect-you're -shocked-Mogwai-didn't-use-it to the songs' beautiful assault of reverberating guitars, crashing, resistant slo-mo drums and heavenly background synths—screams "EPIC." Yet the song succeeds not because of its resemblance to similar instrumental acts like Explosions in the Sky and Mono but instead [...]

• AristeiA - Feedback King