Name: Last Ex
Brand: Last Ex

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CST107lp

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2014-10-14

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Supplier US

Secre­tly

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Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

666561010713

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Last Ex

Genre US

Post Rock

Label US

Constellation

Last Ex is a Canadian experimental music group formed in 2012. The band consists of members Simon Trottier, Olivier Fairfield, and Jean-Sebastien Truchy. Their unique sound combines elements of post-rock, ambient, and electronic music to create atmospheric and immersive compositions. Last Ex's debut album was released in 2014 and received critical acclaim for its innovative approach to soundscapes. With their captivating live performances and boundary-pushing musical style, Last Ex continues to push the boundaries of experimental music.
Simon Trottier is known for his work as a guitarist in the acclaimed Canadian post-rock band Timber Timbre. Olivier Fairfield has played drums with various bands including Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra and Andy Shauf. Jean-Sebastien Truchy has also been involved in several musical projects over the years.
Last Ex's music is characterized by intricate layers of guitar melodies, hypnotic rhythms, and haunting textures. Their compositions are often cinematic in nature, evoking imagery and emotions through sound alone. Whether performing on stage or creating studio recordings, Last Ex showcases their mastery of creating immersive sonic experiences that captivate listeners from start to finish.

Last Ex is a new instrumental rock ensemble led by Simon Trottier and Olivier Fairfield, long active in Quebec's experimental/punk scene, though perhaps best known as core members of Timber Timbre, which spawned the Last Ex project. When Timber Timbre's ambient music for a horror film went unused back in 2012, Trottier and Fairfield began revisiting the sound palette for the soundtrack, expanding on their techniques and textures, adding drums, bass and various other instruments, writing additional songs throughout 2013 and bringing their obsessions with sound collage, tape-based music concrete and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop to bear on the cinematic lyricism of the initial widescreen guitar and string-based material. With its combination of assured lyricism, cinematic guitars, dusky analog atmospherics and taut percussion, this is an instrumental rock album of superb compositional and melodic sensibility, balancing expressiveness and restraint, atmosphere and detail, bound by a highly original approach to production.

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