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Black Country, New Road
In their songs, colossal metal rims mangle with frenetic jazz freakouts and occasional film noir motifs are motored into an urgent razor-tight rhythmic section. Then strings, saxophone, flute, improvisation, urgent vocals of frontman Isaac Wood passing into the preaching passages of the spoken word.…
Floating Points
Floating Points’ breakthrough album Elaenia from 2015 intertwines electronic dance music with his roots in classical music (he studied piano). According to Resident Advisor, the recording he spent five years putting together, was the best album of 2015. According to the…
Yves Tumor
Another re-confirmed name of the Pohoda 2022 is the American producer of experimental electronic music Yves Tumor and its band. His latest albums Heaven to a Tortured Mind and Safe in the Hands have reached several selections of the best albums of the year. As xlr8r wrote:: “Yves Tumor…
ZHU
In September 2018 he released his second album Ringos Desert featuring collaborations with names such as Tame Impala, TOKiMONSTA and Majid Jordan, and he presented it impressively in the desert at the Burning Man festival. Last year he returned with the album DREAMLAND 2021 ’, on which he…
Wolf Alice
Guardian described their refreshing indie-rock as an innovative contemporary approach to the genres of the 1990s such as grunge and shoegaze. The holders of two NME Awards and the Q Award for the best live band have released three albums, and, according to the British media, they were both parts of the…
Metronomy
The story of Metronomy began 20 years ago in Joseph Mount’s bedroom. In 2005, he himself recorded and released 500 pieces of his debut Pip Paine (Pay the £5000 You Owe). Then his cousin Oscar Cash and former classmate Gabriel Stebbing joined him. They released album Night Out, which…
shame – cancelled
Another name of Pohoda is the British alternative rock band Shame. They debuted at the beginning of 2018 with the appropriately titled album “Songs of Praise”, as straight after the release, the British media launched a praise race for this recording. NME called the album the debut of 2018…
Black Midi
Another confirmed name of Pohoda 2022 is Black Midi.In late June 2019, they released their debut Schlagenheim, which brought them a nomination for the prestigious Mercury Prize and fantastic reviews. According to Paste magazine, the album is: “experimental, genre unclassifiable, extremely noisy…
Kokoroko
In early 2018, Gilles Peterson's Brownswood record label released a compilation of contemporary London jazz bands We Out Here. The selection is clearly dominated by the poetic song "Abusey Junction" by until then a relatively unknown band Kokoroko. It immediately skyrocketed and now it…
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs
Pohoda 2021 will also feature the British band Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs (or PIGSx7, if you like). The band combines acid-rock and psych-metal, while their songs are dominated by hammerblow-like drums, thick riffs and throat singing that transforms into an "uplifting and inviting barrage…