‘Transcendental’ features two epic tracks, with a colossal cut from each of the artists: Mono contribute ‘Death in Reverse’, while The Ocean Colective give us ‘The Quiet Observer’. By accident or design, the tracks compliment one another nicely.
With its tempered drums and sparse piano, ‘The Quiet Observer’ is a truly beautiful and lusciously orchestrated post-rock masterpiece of epic proportions – at least for the first three minutes or so, when it builds like Her Name is Calla at their best before blossoming into a throbbing prog/metal hybrid that blisters and burns. It’s by no means the last of the track’s transitions, and the listener is steered through a succession of sonic landscapes.
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Mono’s ‘Death in Reverse’ also utilises many conventions of post-rock, from the chiming, reverb-heavy guitars and monumental, long-building crescendos. In fact, the first six minutes of the track’s towering 11-minute duration are all build, as layer upon layer of sound is added with growing intensity and the drumming increases in strength and urgency.
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