A Foreign Sky
Hailing from California, A Foreign Sky create melodic and ambient Post-Hardcore. The four-piece mix traditional Pop-Rock vocal and guitars with unearthly sounds, haunting keyboard and soothing melodies.
The band was originally composed of two high school friends, who grew up on a steady diet of early 2000’s Post-Hardcore bands like Glassjaw and Circa Survive, and later grew in size to four members when the duo went to college.
A Foreign Sky live
One of the more remarkable things about the band is that they do all the recording themselves: ‘Mark and I worked pretty closely mixing and recording them ourselves because between us we have a pretty clear vision for what we want them to sound like’ claims lead guitarist Adam Blalock. Although it’s pretty normal for independent bands to record their own songs, it is somewhat less normal for them to come out so well mixed, beautifully layered and very professional sounding.
Their first 5 track E.P is available for download for the tidy sum of 5 American dollars, but first let’s check out what those dollars could buy you.
Bluring The Line
The crackling sound laid over the classic and melodic sounding piano is a great way to start a song, it straight away sums up the character of the song you are about to hear.
The song pivots from poetic and ambient to loud and powerful enough times to ensure repeat listens and still have it be interesting to hear.
Unfortunately the song does hold on to a slightly cheesy american rock vibe that is a bit too rich for my delicate English sensibilities, but that doesn't mean that it's not a great song that works on every level.
Hills and Valleys
Hills and Valleys is by far my favourite song from the E.P. The slow, melodic, almost moody feeling works really well with the lead singer's vocals. Some parts of the track kind of remind me of early Smashing Pumpkins.
June 21st
Proving that A Foreign Sky are no one trick pony, June 21st is a completely instrumental song.
Choosing to do an instrumental song is a daring move for any band as you risk boring your audience because they cannot really connect to the music, this however is not the case with June 21st.
The song ricochets between up and down like a yo-yo, always keeping you guessing. The instruments are complex enough to keep you engaged and is in fact one of the best songs on the E.P.
You can pick up any one of A Foreign Sky's songs for just a dollar at http://aforeignsky.bandcamp.com or pick up the whole album for 5$.
A Foreign Sky found their way on to UnlabeledUK by sending one of their songs to unlabeleduk@gmail.com, why don't you do the same.
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