This Will Destroy You
Tunnel Blanket

Catharsis. This album is catharsis. This album is one of the pinnacles of post-rock reached this year. This album is the ultimate limit that the particular musical path undertaken by This Will Destroy You could have allowed to be reached.

Starting as a regular post-rock band, TWDY have reworked what was becoming an all-too-classic and overused recipe by enriching it with a layer of electronic elements and releasing the excellent self-titled album “This Will Destroy You.”

But with this album "Tunnel Blanket" our artists have added one last decisive ingredient to the already well-tested mix, represented by a strong noise component that transforms the tails of each track into a true bacchanal. A sound wall that crumbles onto you, burying you under a blanket of reverberations.

The phenomenal opening track, "Little Smoke", perfectly encapsulates the new crystal-clear formula developed by the group. A long, slow, and delicate introduction that, after hypnotizing you, explodes into a constantly crescendoing harmonic loop enriched with distortions at every repetition, increasing in intensity until it fully saturates the sound spectrum. Deafening you. Destroying you. Pure sonic power.

One of the most beautiful tracks heard this year. A track that compels you to turn up the volume of your headphones until your ears bleed.

The entire album is a refinement and reiteration of the canon defined in the opening track, with few concessions to improvisation. The album's intent is to carve this formula into the listener's eardrums — sound walls after sound walls, sonic waves after sonic waves, with no variations, but with a strong noise charge.

Solemn in its progression, in its instrumental crescendos that gradually pulverize your ears, with those harmonic loops each time higher, more powerful, more majestic, and more chaotic, This Will Destroy You once again surpass themselves by producing the best post-rock/post-metal album of the year, sometimes a true Noise album.

A small note on the band's live performance, where they further manage to amaze, resulting in an authentic spectacle, capable as they are of finally smacking you in the face with that sound wall that is perceived on the album but cannot be fully appreciated unless live.

I have no idea what they could do after this masterpiece, but they are a band that has always managed to innovate. Therefore, I eagerly await their next move.