Hrsta
Ghosts Will Come And Kiss Our Eyes

The Constellation is a splendid record label. This is demonstrated by the artists linked to it: Silver Mt Zion, GYBE!, Vic Chesnutt (whose latest album, the wonderful "North Star Deserter", celebrated the ten-year anniversary of the label), just to mention the most well-known. A true school has formed around it, a circle of musicians who broadly understand the concept of making music in a similar way: the so-called Montreal school. The post-rock of Hrsta is one of the best offerings coming from this Canada that few still manage to see as the cradle of a well-established musical dimension, and "Ghosts Will Come And Kiss Our Eyes" is the album that clearly demonstrates its maturity.

Born from the mind of Mike Moya, better known as a member of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Hrsta had already gained attention with their previous albums, which, however, still remained very anchored to the well-established models of their more famous compatriots. With this album, the Canadian band seems to have reached a balance, seems to have brought out their own sound that had been lacking before. Listening to "Ghosts Will Come And Kiss Our Eyes", one does not find themselves involved in descents into the inferno with blows of violas and guitars. The dimension is not one of tension that exhausts in an implosion or gradually grows towards a final liberating explosion as tradition would have it; one is immersed in a magma of sounds that oscillate between decadent limbos (like that of "The Orchard") and noise drifts ("Hechicero del Bosque"); it moves from the electronics that seem to hover in "Saturn Of Chagrin" to the corrosive dissonances of "Kotori". The listening experience is enjoyable and captivating.

Hrsta at this point find themselves at that point where an artist has to confirm they are a cut above the average; with this work they have proven not to be just a noteworthy entity, now it remains to be seen if they will be able to reaffirm the non-mediocrity demonstrated, or if they will be sucked into the magma of anonymity.

I am hopeful.