Holy Roar Records Files Pt.2 – Rolo Tomassi’s Cosmology

Matt MacLennan
Listen To This!
OK, so this one was put out on a different label initially, but Holy Roar released Cosmology on vinyl so it still counts. Look, who's writing this fucking thing? Semantics, etc. If I needed an excuse to write about this wonderfully dreamy experiment of math metal and synth symphonies (synthonies? Nah.) then this is it. Rolo Tomassi - for the crime of being too splendid a band to hate and too skilled at writing the most savage party metal, you have been found guilty. Let's examine the evidence as to why they have a life sentence to spent in the confines of any digital device I own.

Hey! Listen to Earth Moves!

Eden Kupermintz
News
Just this week, as part of our Editors' Picks column, I spoke a bit about the ever-changing soundscape of post-hardcore, its upcoming solidification as the genre proliferates and interesting combinations with existing sub-genres which might keep it fresh and moving. Holy Roar Records is a good place to continue this discussion; they've almost made it their specialty to sign artists from this milieu, drawing vast synonyms between the label and the sounds associated with post-hardcore. Naturally, you find some dross but most of what Holy Roar signs has interesting things to say about post-hardcore. Take Earth Moves for example. Their sadly overlooked release from 2016, The Truth in Our Bodies, is a fragile, honest and powerful album, blending post-hardcore vocals, doom instruments and post rock compositions. This amalgam creates both a sound unique to Earth Moves and a chilling sojourn in a stark place for the listener, populated with the band's own psychodrama.