After an extended leave of absence from the recording world, The Mercury Program are back in full effect with their latest release, Chez Viking. With an intriguing blend of atmosphere-filling sounds, these experimentalists by nature bring forth something of a fondue pot of boiling and bizarre collaborations between vibraphones and a taunting rhythm section. Their style would almost seem simple by nature if it didn’t leave you with an out-of-this-world, hand job from an alien-like euphoria after one listen.

These days, say post rock to anyone and you’ll likely get references to Mogwai and Explosions In The Sky, if they know it at all. But with Fin Fang Foom’s new LP (their forth overall and first in six years), you get something a bit more classic when it comes to the sub-genre: a clashing of post-rock and shoegaze, the drone of guitars and massive, echoing notes. It’s hard, it’s heavy, and it rocks full-force.
It’s not until the third track, “Lonely Waves”, that Fin Fang Foom …