Visceral, sky-cracking post-rock that fuses traditional Korean instruments with metallic savagery. Besides the standard bass/guitar/drums, Jambinai also experiments with the geomungo (a human-sized, bassy zither), a reed flute called the piri, and the haegum, a bowed 2-string fiddle-like instrument. Both quietly unsettling and sublimely exhilarating, this sails on the same plane as Xylouris White, Russian Circles, and Mogwai. Try 2, 3, 5, 6, and 8. No FCCs; occasional vocals are either indistinguishable wails or in Korean.

1. (3:07) Wardrobe—Huge, seismic savagery veering towards sludgy metal. Wailing guitars, fast drums, brief buried sections of howling vox, moonlit haegum
2. (4:21) ** Echo of Creation—Blinding-fast drums and wails give way to quieter, wistful passages of ticking geomungo, windy falsetto vox, bass; drums kick in again at the end
3. (7:14) **** For Everything That You Lost—Epic. String picking, spooky repetitive keys, eerily subdued and robotic. Then more clarion geomungo lines and a gradual increase in urgency. Quite sublime. Closes with hushed keys and strings
4. (7:05) Abyss—Thick syncopated geomungo, venomous spoken word
5. (4:30) ** Deus Benedicat Tibi—Skyward, grand, high registers invite goblin drums and total metal destruction
6. (6:58) *** The Mountain—Spare geomungo and whistling noises, then emotional guitars and rippling catharsis
7. (7:30) Naburak—Urgent, grinding geomungo and drums, fairly repetitive except for the understated last two minutes (warning: very soft and silent at times)
8. (6:25) *** They Keep Silence—Warlike. Pounding drums, driving distorted guitars, undulating bass and haegum