In case you’re at risk of flying too near the solar, slip into the most recent progressive post-rock launch, Ikarus, by Third Man Syndrome. The epic aural chronicle makes use of the nippiness of frenetic, angular, post-punk adjoining guitars to deliver you again all the way down to earth earlier than constructing cinematic euphony across the progressions, lending melodicism to the discharge that’s all the time ready to flip the swap and launch you right into a white scorching basic guitar riff, a momentous tide of fervent power, and regardless of the soundscape calls for of Third Man Syndrome to deliver the saga again to life within the type of an instrumental alt-rock firestorm.
Third Man Syndrome was born from an Austrian artist’s renewed devotion to music after time away to concentrate on household, pouring years of reflection into the strings. Each motif in Ikarus is sculpted with function—balancing pressure, ambition, and catharsis. The fretwork orbits fable, burning with the chance and launch of flight, pushing and pulling via stressed crescendos and abrupt plunges. With each passage, the observe calls for give up to the drama of hovering and falling, capturing the mythos of Icarus in full instrumental kind.
‘Ikarus’ is now accessible to stream on all main platforms, together with Spotify.
Assessment by Amelia Vandergast
