Kauan's new album Ice Fleet is out today on Artoffact Records.
Stream the album and buy it, here:
https://kauan.bandcamp.com/album/ice-fleet
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“As serene guitars give way to crashing devastation and back again, you’ll get more than a taste of the frigid allure of unnaturally still arctic waters and the building dread and horror found within... Kauan seems to exist just out of reach on the edge of a dream, where equal parts hope, wonder, and despair are all possible.”
–Stereogum
"On Ice Fleet, Kauan mastermind Anton Belov, lays down layer upon layer of guitars drenched in tape echo, reverb, and delay, meshed with a lysergic spectrum of synthesizers and Finnish folk melodies sung in Belov's trademark, cavernously deep bass vocals. These parts are offset with unexpected passages of crushing doom metal punctuated by occasional black metal rasping... These songs evoke powerful feelings of solitude, cold, and resignation to fate. Ice Fleet is a stunning accomplishment and Kauan's most complete record to date."
–Metal Injection
"From sparse Max Richter-style aural depression to louder-but-no-less melancholic This Will Destroy You-esque post-metal to Supermodified-era Amon Tobin-ish jazzy electronica to black metal as desolate and frost-bitten as any you will ever hear."
–MetalSucks
"Vast, windswept post-rock that tells a story of frostbitten perseverance. Subtle folk influence and eclectic instrumentation help sell the epic journey."
–Stereogum
"On Ice Fleet, Kauan mastermind Anton Belov, lays down layer upon layer of guitars drenched in tape echo, reverb, and delay, meshed with a lysergic spectrum of synthesizers and Finnish folk melodies sung in Belov's trademark, cavernously deep bass vocals. These parts are offset with unexpected passages of crushing doom metal punctuated by occasional black metal rasping... These songs evoke powerful feelings of solitude, cold, and resignation to fate. Ice Fleet is a stunning accomplishment and Kauan's most complete record to date."
–Metal Injection
"From sparse Max Richter-style aural depression to louder-but-no-less melancholic This Will Destroy You-esque post-metal to Supermodified-era Amon Tobin-ish jazzy electronica to black metal as desolate and frost-bitten as any you will ever hear."
–MetalSucks
"Vast, windswept post-rock that tells a story of frostbitten perseverance. Subtle folk influence and eclectic instrumentation help sell the epic journey."
–Invisible Oranges
"This is one moving, somber album... It’s as if they’re scoring the soundtrack to a movie that doesn’t exist."
–New Noise
"Even here in southern California, it’s hard not to feel a chill while listening to music this evocative of icy seas and frozen tundras. While those moments of climactic heaviness certainly arrive, it’s the haunting beauty that surrounds them that’s most striking about this album."
–Treble
"The transitions are textured and purposeful, and the atmosphere — cold enough to represent a record called Ice Fleet — also has breadth and malleability."
–The Obelisk
"A post-rock masterpiece. This is a kind of musical vision that distinguishes itself through its utter lack of compromise... A clear, focused, and unrelenting vision. In short, Ice Fleet is just fucking triumphant."
–Everything Is Noise
–The Obelisk
"A post-rock masterpiece. This is a kind of musical vision that distinguishes itself through its utter lack of compromise... A clear, focused, and unrelenting vision. In short, Ice Fleet is just fucking triumphant."
–Everything Is Noise
"The album’s not only gorgeous, but every choice the band’s made on it makes perfect sense in the context of its concept... It’s so rich and rewarding an album that, even after more than a month with it, I’m still making new discoveries with each listen."
–Nine Circles
"Above all else, Ice Fleet is an evocative release. It’s the sound of the distant wilderness, an icy landscape untroubled by humanity’s touch. Its freezing synths, melancholic post rock, powerful atmosphere and triumphant metal edge forge a unique and uniquely affecting album."
–Angry Metal Guy
"Ice Fleet, with its strong composition and performance, is a magnificent theatrical work in praise of nature and its never-ending mysteries."
–Heavy Music HQ
"Above all else, Ice Fleet is an evocative release. It’s the sound of the distant wilderness, an icy landscape untroubled by humanity’s touch. Its freezing synths, melancholic post rock, powerful atmosphere and triumphant metal edge forge a unique and uniquely affecting album."
–Angry Metal Guy
"Ice Fleet, with its strong composition and performance, is a magnificent theatrical work in praise of nature and its never-ending mysteries."
–Heavy Music HQ
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