VERSTÄRKER

track-list:
Gadd
Fliegender Fluss
Echoes in Motion
Elephants
Hazarai

Verstärker are:
Alexander Gilli – bass
Roberto Cruccolini – guitars
Wolfgang Walter – drums

Verstärker is post-rock:
massively euphoric walls of sound piled up into infinite spheres with an intense, multi-faceted instrumental flow. Here, Mogwai’s intensity and Motorpsycho’s playfulness meet Russian Circles’ anthems and Maserati’s musical playfulness.
Three instruments, rumbling, meandering, floating basses (Alexander Gilli), bell-like hymnic, then again rough guitars (Roberto Cruccolini), unadorned, driving, decomposing, oscillating drums (Wolfgang Walter).
On October 11, 2024 after more than 20 years of band history, instrumental post-rockers Verstärker had released their 5th studio album titled ‘V‘ on Finaltune Records.
The trio had also shared two singles ‘Echoes In Motion‘ and ‘Fliegender Fluss‘.
The band tells us about the single ‘Echoes In Motion‘:
“‘Echoes In Motion’ is probably the most atypical Verstärker-song of recent years: it is catchier and more driving and even has a real hymnic chorus that you would almost want to sing along to if it had vocals. And on the other hand, there are also the typical post-rock moments that make Echoes a real Verstärker-song – not least the various types of delay that the song has in its name.”
They also explain the single ‘Fliegender Fluss‘:
“‘Fliegender Fluss’ embodies its name, unfolding like a river, steady and organic, before lifting off into sweeping crescendos. A captivating instrumental post-rock journey, it effortlessly blends fluidity with moments of sweeping intensity.”
The new album ‘V‘ consists of 5 new tracks recorded live (38 min) and has been released on Finaltune Records, label of essential post-rock duo ‘Collapse Under The Empire‘.
While the songs on the predecessor ‘Themes & Variations‘ (2020) were real instrumental monoliths between post- and kraut-rock, the new songs are more compact and catchy, but still instrumental post-rock sculptures that trigger exuberant, long-lasting feelings of happiness:
dynamics and melancholy, sometimes energetic and euphoric, then again wide areas and lush sound sculptures.