The Dead Sea are a three-piece from Sydney, and I heard of them through their drummer, one Mr Nick Kennedy, who told me I should check them out on account of my love of Sigur Ros. I haven't physically managed to make it to a gig (and it seems like I may have lost my chance - did they relocate to Berlin?).
Their music certainly does have that haunting, sprawling, post-rock sensibility bands like Sigur Ros possess, but there is something slightly more... earthen? Organic perhaps? .. about The Dead Sea. Their song 'Departure Gates' is all kinds of awesome: cinematic, exploratory, melodic, dark. It struck me as soon as I heard it.
There doesn't seem to be much of a market for post-rock nowadays in the local stakes - or perharps there are hundreds of bands like this waiting to be discovered as well - so I give huge props to them for creating a sound which is not of the norm. Its lovely, lovely stuff and I say this every time, but I really do think everyone should check them out. Their MySpace has a few sample tracks for your pleasure.
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