94. Gilmore Trail - "Echoes of Solitude"

A bit of an unknown gem from Sheffield here. Gilmore Trail are an instrumental post-rock outfit that has been diligently operating under the radar for the last ten years producing exquisite chunks of lilting beauty. “Impermanence” is their third album and was created and produced in fits and spurts during the Covid outbreak. It seeks to capture that feeling of constant change and to (in the band’s words) honour those they have lost along the way. It’s reflective and solemn but also simultaneously gloriously beautiful. It’s restrained and refrained for most of its running time, but then in places, it explodes in glorious techno colour. Haunting and thought-provoking music that washes over you in waves of pathos.