Postcards - The Good Soldier
Postcards is a dream-pop outfit from Beirut, Lebanon. Not long ago they dropped their second album, called The Good Soldier.
Postcards
Produced by Fadi Tabbal of Tunefork Studios, and released via T3 Records, the album blends slow core, surf rock, post-punk, and shoe gaze ingredients into undulating, creamy dreamy textures. This is a gorgeous album.
Made up of Julia Sabra (vocals, guitar, synth, organ, bass synth), Marwan Tohme (guitar, bass, backing vocals), and Pascal Semerdjian (drums, sampler, bass synth, and backing vocals), Postcards has toured throughout Europe, the UK, and the Middle East, since 2014, along with sharing the stage with Beirut, and Angus and Julia Stone.
In March of this year, Postcards will set off on an extensive European tour, followed by performing at Orange Blossom Festival, in Dortmund, during May.
Encompassing 11-tracks, The Good Soldier starts off with “Dead End,” opening on dark streaming textures of color, almost dirge-like, but sinuous and rippling. A powerful wailing guitar infuses the tune with searing urgent tones, as Sabra’s ethereal tones glide by overhead, giving the lyrics diaphanous filaments.
“Lights Out” is another stellar track, traveling on a softly strumming guitar, as Sabra’s luscious tones float exquisitely above.
Best tracks include “Fossilized,” one of my personal favorites because of its glittering gentle flow. Sabra’s voice, delicate yet intoxicating, fills the harmonics with lustrous timbres, akin to an ozone smelling mist drifting on polished surface colors.
“Lights Out” is another stellar track, traveling on a softly strumming guitar, as Sabra’s luscious tones float exquisitely above. When the drums enter, emerging synths imbue the tune with shimmering viscous textures, followed by a distant howling guitar, as creamy resonant harmonies pervade the harmonic ambience with spectral yearning hues.
“Hunting Season” fuses dream-pop and surf rock flavors into a potent number with a scrumptiously rolling, running bassline providing a dense matrix for the gleaming guitar surges.
The final track, “Little Lies,” rides slow pungent guitar tones atop a measured beat, drifting and wallowing in echoing washes.
On The Good Soldier, Postcards put together a wonderfully luminous album full of silky harmonics, edgy guitars, and Julia Sabra’s nonpareil voice.
