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If there is one thing I am a sucker for it is a big, gnarly post-rock song. Lately it seems that the genre has been getting a teeny bit crowded and it is becoming a little more of a challenge to find artists that are truly striving for their own sound. Joy Wants Eternity is a five-piece from Seattle, Washinton that eschews bass and opts for guitars, Rhodes piano and drums. The song posted here is from their new album due out May 22 entitled You Who Pretend to Sleep. It captures the very essence of all that I love about the post-rock sound. Spacious and epic with moments that make you want to cry and/or watch a thousand sunsets in a row. The wall of distortion and huge guitars are there but the drums are what set this song apart. They push and pull the song towards its peaks and valleys but they remain sparse and calculated leaving a sort of methodical hole in the middle of the song--and it sounds great.

Joy Wants Eternity-Above the Clouds Lies Eternal Sun