There's music for admiring the windswept vistas from the highest peak your little legs can drive you up, and then there's the music that gets you up there, through the biting rain and daggers of sleet – the driving neo-crust of Germany's Alpinist. Formed in 2007 in Munster, Alpinist have carved out an aesthetic of expertly constructed, ecologically friendly d-beat with the glistening guitar sound and dense melancholy that characterises much of the world post His Hero is Gone and From Ashes Rise.Releasing a number of splits and two albums in rapid sucession – 2009's 'Minus Mensch' and 2010's 'Lightlaerm' – both are furious bursts of melodious rage, but while the former features moments of glowering Amenra-brand atmospheric menace and 4am dread, the latter sees them explode from mere orange ember to a blinding inferno of full-on post-rock guitar noodling.
Daft name though, they might as well be called Rambler.
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