PG.Lost

PG.LOST will be releasing their new album, Oscillate this month on November 20th. Oscillate,the band’s latest LP is packed to the gills with pure drama and catharsis. Their fifth overall and first effort since 2016’s much lauded Versus, Oscillate leans on an instrumental approach and while their keen understanding oftension/release may warrant comparison to the likes of MONO, Explosions in the Sky and Godspeed You! Black Emperor, PG.LOST is unafraid to move into exciting new directions. With influences that range from the emotional heft of Big Thief to the inventive spirit of krautrock to the brutality of Neurosis to the dark experimentalism of COIL, these heavier elements intertwine and open up into wide-eyed expansiveness of Fennesz or Tim Hecker,revealing a beauty shimmering underneath and a range of depth rarely found in today’s over-compressed and spit-shined version of “modern music.”

In making the new LP, PG.LOST opted to keep it simple and follow their gut. “On the previous records we have always tried to make it very basic and clean when it comes to production, not too many overdubs or add-ons,” reveals bassist Kristian Karlsson. “This time was more about not thinking about that at all. We don’t try to over analyse our records — it always starts with one or two songs and they often set the mood of the rest of the writing process. I think this album has more layers to it — you hear new

PG.LOST Their New Album, Oscillate This Month

things every time you listen. We’re really Lindberg from Cult of Luna. In creating looking forward to hearing what the the LP, the only hurdle seemingly was an listeners think.” internal one and making efficient use of Kicking off with a blossoming the band we spent almost every night in dark ambient passage on the title track, the rehearsal space,” recalls Karlsson. an ascendant guitar/synth part builds “Nowadays we only rehearse for tours or tension until final release is achieved when we plan to have writing sessions with a massive chorus, wavesof eye- for example upcoming records. It is not opening guitars and elephantine tribal as spontaneous as it used to be, but I drums. It’s emblematic of the album as a think it forces us to really make the best whole — massive in scope and even out of it when we do see each other.” larger in sound, Oscillate is the true definition of its title with incredibly Founded in 2004 in Norrköping, tense swells to the Sweden, PG.LOST is Mattias Bhatt, point of collapse Martin Hjertstedt (ex-Ghost), Gustav leading to a slow but Almberg (The Great Discord) and pensive disintegra- Kristian Karlsson (Cult of Luna). tion. And again. And Formed in pursuit of a singular love of again. Oscillate is post-rock, ambient and shoegaze with a not just instrumental bent towards post-metal, the band music, it’s cinematic released their self-titled and the Yes, I — it’s high drama, Am EPs in 2006 and 2007. From there executed in IMAX PG.LOST dropped their 2008 LP It’s Not with a pristine Me, It’s You! quickly followed by 2009’s soundtrack blasting In Never Out, Key, the Wang Wen split at 120db. LP and Versus followed in 2012, 2013 Due in execution and mammoth in scope, November via Oscillate is ten tracks of pure dramatic Pelagic Records, the bombast and a massive step forward for LP was recorded by the decades-old band. The four years the band in their own away have been worth it. studio, and mixed/ mastered by Magnus individual scheduling. “When we formed and 2016 respectively. Sovereign in November 2020 • Rock and Blues International 79