Hesse Kassel – La Brea


Hesse Kassel

La Brea

Cal Cashin hails a scorching debut album by Chilean art rock group Hesse Kassel which comfortably spans the power and textures of Godspeed, early BC,NR, Shellac and Swans

La Brea by Hesse Kassel

La Brea is a truly inexplicable, revelatory debut. Spending 80 minutes with Chilean band Hesse Kassel, and their writhing, scampering, soaring post rock, is as genuinely life-affirming as it gets. It is music of the most cathartic and reinvigorating nature, and an elemental listening experience that makes everything feel new, exciting, and possible. The sextet from Santiago spend most of their debut trawling dark, gristly undertow, but within their sprawling, flowing ten minute songs, they always break through into euphoria.

The band take their cues from the breadth…

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