LOST IN KIEV

Post-Rock

Post rock has ever since its beginnings shown an affinity to the use of speech samples, and has borrowed voices from movies or speeches by celebrities like Iggy Pop as in Mogwai’s „Punk Rock“ or random lost souls as in GY!BE’s „Blaise Bailey Finnegan III“. LOST IN KIEV take this tradition to the next level, by writing their own genuine storyline, and making their own movie to their album.

Ever since 2016’s Nuit noir, the band has recorded their own spoken words, as opposed to plagiarizing from movies. During their live performances, these voiceovers are synchronized with video projections showing actors who interprete the different voices on screen. An inverted soundtrack of sorts, or musical fiction, always tinged with realism in a striking and emotionally intense way.

From the first notes, Lost in Kiev brings an epic and massive post rock, driven by the energy of rock mixed with some electronic sounds. The 4 members of Lost in Kiev like to tell stories with their music, they writes and records their own words proposing for samples and create their own visuals stuff, like video projections, to creating a consistency between the graphics and the emotions, giving the listeners a coherent experience.

Persona, the latest album released under the french moniker, sees the band further expand their own idiosyncratic take on cinematic, contemporary post rock. „The main challenge with this record was how to write more direct and shorter post rock tracks with the same intensity as our previous, longer compositions“, guitarist Maxime Ingrand explains, „and also finding the right balance between traditonal post rock, the addition of synths and machines and the texts for the film“.