Over 2 hours of music. From what I've listened to, it's not really my cup of tea. But I appreciate the huge effort.

The listing of instruments (from their Bandcamp page) should give you an idea of the size of this project:

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WHALESONG:
Michal Kielbasa - vocals, guitars, lapsteel guitar, bass, hammered dulcimer, tubular bells, vibes, mellotron, keys, lyra8, theremin, gong, percussion, zither, sitar, violin
Grzegorz Zawadzki - drums, percussion
Piotr Dziemski - guitars
Elise Aranguren - vocals

GUEST MUSICIANS:
Attila Csihar - vocals
Lazarus - vocals
Dancing Deadlips - backing vocals
Steve Blanco - piano
Aleksander Papierz - saxophone
Tomasz Herisz - vibraphone
Pawel Pelka - french horn
Miro Snejdr - piano
Wukir Suryadi - bambu wukir

Written by F3ynman on 16.07.2023 at 18:14

Over 2 hours of music. From what I've listened to, it's not really my cup of tea. But I appreciate the huge effort.

I'm a few songs in and it seems to be some ambient/drone slightly doomy stuff to me. It could easily be a double album if the last two tracks (50 minutes!) were seperate.
I'm enjoying the large range of instruments though, even if it is more on the slow side.

And that cover art... so cool.

We had the previous album in the industrial category back in 2019; they must have changed their sound a lot, as this is bordering on drone for a lot of its runtime, albiet with some jazzy segues. I will say it kept me mostly on board for those 2 hours, although the free jazz bits in tracks like A Distant Memory I could do without