Album Review: Jambinai - A Hermitage

Combing regular electric instruments with traditional Korean ones, the music that Jambinai make is a publicist's nightmare.

Forget about the post-rock tags you may have seen, because you've never heard anything like this. Strange, sinister and brutally oppressive at times, A Hermitage is a treasure chest of creativity. In particular tracks like They Keep Silence could gain traction with open-minded doom metal heads, whereas the epic For Everything That You Lost should appeal to Sigur Ros-tronauts. A Hermitage doesn't just open a door to new possibilities; it kicks it off the bloody hinges.