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French cinematic post-rock collective Lost In Kiev has released via Pelagic Records the new album Rupture. Recorded in a live setting, Rupture concerns the band’s feelings about the drastic environmental changes that can be perceived all over the world. Casting their eco-angst into nine soaring and explorative tracks, Lost In Kiev channels a sound that’s raw and pristine, reaching an emotive power beyond anything they’ve done before.
Since the Paris Agreement of 2015, climate change has been a firm topic on the international political agenda, and one closely followed by the media. However, with the pandemic, the war in Ukraine and the recent spikes in fuel and food prices, media attention to rising temperatures and vanishing ecosystems has waned a fair bit, so it comes at the right time that the French quartet reminds us of these pressing global issues.
“Rupture is an album made to express how we feel about the breaking point between modern civilization and natural life”, explains guitarist/synth player Maxime Ingrand. “Planetary stability hangs by a thread because of too much consumption and other human activities, while many things (pollution, animal life, energy consumption) are at a tipping point. These are things that affect us and that we try to transcribe musically, both negatively and positively.”
With Rupture, Lost In Kiev have delivered another tour de force that surpasses their previous outings in many ways. Every song is pure melancholic ecstasy and rapture, while it also sees the band tread new ground. Going through various layers of dynamic composition, these nine tracks easily suck you into the band’s much-needed narrative in which they lay bare their concerns and their anxieties. Rupture sees Lost In Kiev at their most raw and authentic, and in a time where climate concerns need to be put back on the agenda, the album is a much-needed experience: a gripping portrait of mankind’s deteriorating relationship with its planet, this record will resonate with many fans of instrumental rock, both aesthetically and emotionally.
Listen to Rupture in its entirety right below and you might be surprised what everything this band has to offer. Link
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