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Artist
Plain Fade
12+ albums
experimentalpost-rockambientinstrumentalfinnish
about
Plain Fade is a Finnish band whose music combines a trademark Northern European sense of melancholy with urban feeling of detachment. The band, founded in 1997 in Tampere, Finland, evokes a strong sense of drama in their compositions, using their trademark intuitive way of making music to create their uncompromising dynamic soundscapes. The music presents the listener with a rich world of sharp contrasts, where slow dynamic build-ups erupt into majestic chaos, letting delicate melodies collide with bombastic codas. In addition to using traditional rock band instruments like guitars, drums and keyboards, the band also utilises a variety of other instruments such as cellos, harp and samplers. The musicians are constantly seeking to create new moods and atmospheres with their expression. Plain Fade’s music in 2010 is a mixture of colossal melodies, pompous grandeur, delicate minimalism, Slavic sense of melancholy and North European nature. Influences range from ambient to hc punk rock and from medieval to minimalism. After the 2003-single “Datura”, Punos Sound released Plain Fade’s first full-length album, “Lies, Sanctions and Cruise Missiles” in March 2005. The album won huge critical acclaim and the band did various shows with some respected alternative music acts (such as Cult of Luna (SWE), Pedigree (EST), Callisto, Magyar Posse, Kuusumun Profeetta. Improvisation-based, more experimental second album, “Aure”, was released in November 2006. After some hiatus in 2007-2008,
