I tried to ignore the noise that distorts the sound, how it came to be and why it is that I cannot see the wind that blows the trees but the way it moves the leaves - it’s a strange thought that I can’t escape. As if the sky were to fluctuate and fall down on us, clouds surround and breathe, in and out, in and out as leaves hit the ground but do they make a sound? I cannot think for a second why it is that this time of year brings upon a daze so fragile that I can barely feel it. I wish that I could return that faint feeling that I once had. I wish those cold, hollow words, those passive thoughts would escape me and my haunted mind, but why is it that I can’t find the reason why I just can’t blur it all out. I wish that I could return that faint feeling that I once had. I wish for those clouds to surround.
Toronto band Respire deliver a post-hardcore tour de force on the largest scale possible, orchestrally rich and incessantly uncompromising. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 6, 2021
On their debut record, the London hardcore upstarts cross-up mosh-ready fare with melancholic ambient passages, weeping guitars, and virtuosic vocal harmonies, but its romantic veneer is much more complicated than it seems. Bandcamp Album of the Day Jan 30, 2019