Whoever is behind the sensory-sonic mystery of Parannoul’s music may not want to be known by name, but will at least have their art resonate into the beyond from this point forward. The enigmatic experimental shoegaze project’s latest full-length effort, After the Magic, explodes the diagram that touched the fuzzed-out bedroom ceiling atmosphere of their 2021 breakout, To See the Next Part of the Dream, into a listen that is expansively cinematic. Moving in and out of this Earth and the ethereal, the album places its emotional depths within a tangent orbit of anti-gravity rock like M83 and Sigur Rós while its digitally progressive approach to dream-pop maintains its glide with featherlight aerodynamics, albeit into alien terrains removed from the wash of our earthly distortion. “I’m always afraid when what I have now will disappear and when people will leave me. I think these are some kind of magic, that will shine bright for a while and then lights out, like nothing happened,” its creator said of its making. This is the album that assures Parannoul’s existence will live infinitely through all who its energy flows through.

Highlights: “우리는 밤이 되면 빛난다 (We Shine at Night)”, “스케치북 (Sketchbook)”, “Sound Inside Me, Waves Inside You”

Parannoul’s After the Magic is available now on POCLANOS / Topshelf Records.

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