Records of the Week

COLLAPSE UNDER THE EMPIRE ON MYSPACE / BUY THEIR SELF RELEASED ALBUM HERE

We’re a little late on this German outfit’s debut record, but it socked us so hard we can’t not recognize its towering levels of awesome. Yes it’s post-rock but it embodies the genre without pretention or artsy flourishes, only sheer brute strength and thundering intensity. They don’t beat around the bush – both their band name and album title imply a bloody dystopia, an apocalyptic reckoning that will be as gorgeous as it is inevitable. In fact, these guys think it’s all about rain down on us so soon that we can already expect a second release from Collapse Under The Empire this fall. It’s the best of both worlds: prolific and wrought with intimidation. Do the collapse with us on the nowlikephotographs podcast.