69. Final Light - "Final Light"

More French audio experimentation but with an added dash of Swedish pizzazz. Final light is a collaboration between Synthwave pioneer Pertubator (who just happens to be, trivia fans, the son of legendary NME journalist Nick Kent) and Johannes Persson of the utterly awesome Cult of Luna (who, if I’m honest, we haven’t heard the last of). Final light merges their two worlds (namely post-metal and synth-driven experimentalism). In some places, it does sound like Johannes screaming over a Pertubator record (which in itself is not a bad thing) but there are other points where it creates an evocative and haunting amalgamation of the two styles. Whipped together they seem to create a dark impenetrable mesh of atmospheric darkness. It manages to highly effectively blend bleakness and beauty to the point where this hybrid of styles feels evocative enough to go head-to-head with either of the collaborator’s chosen areas of expertise.