Band:	Fading Waves
Album:	The Sense Of Space
Style:	Post-rock, Post-metal
Release date:	October 2011

01. Air
02. Flashes
03. Destroying The Time
04. Perforate The Sky
05. Through The Veins

Fading Waves is the brain child of Rostov-on-Don resident, Alexey Maximuk. Alexey's first full-length, The Sense Of Space, sees him call upon call up a half dozen of his amazing friends and bang out a pretty cool initial offering that sees post-metal blended with a little pinch of both goth and doom for good measure.

Fading Waves, in addition to being the band name, is probably a good enough starting point to describe the music. Waves can be beautiful and serene, gently lapping at the shore. They can also swell, crash upon the shore with a subtle ferocity that can drag surfers to their death. Gnarly, brah.

The album starts off innocently enough with "Air" and "Flashes", a nice, serene build up and some entrancing female vocals and continues along with lots of Explosions In The Sky style post-y developments. Clean guitar tones with reverb that slowly and gradually build in intensity.

Just as the songs ebb, flow, and grow, so does the album as a whole as with, say, Ulver's Bergtatt. The album grows from tranquil water, light and clean with beautiful female vox to raging, stormy seas with growls, distortion-pedal aided post-riffs, and even some guitar solos.

By the time the album ends with "Through The Veins", is almost surprising how far the album has come from the opening until close. Perhaps even more surprising how it escalated to that crescendo without any particular abrupt turns.

While the album was perhaps more enjoyable than I thought it would be (what, me with my "post-metal traumatic stress disorder" and all), ultimately it isn't particular innovative in a very crowded field of acts. But I guess that is present in all genres of music, eh?