Post-rock in song form. The Misadventures of Anthony Knivet is the debut record from this young but already acclaimed band.
The members of FIRST BREATH AFTER COMA are only 20 years old but have a musical maturity far beyond their years. This is surely thanks to their previous incarnation as a high school band, where they played in moldy garages and smoky clubs, trying out their own versions of classics from bands ranging from Joy Division to the Doors and Iggy Pop to the Velvet Underground. They also worked a handful of originals into those early sets, where traces of a post-punk influence were already brewing.
Then they decided to stop and give it some time. Hoping to return and catch their breath. During their hiatus they discovered post-rock but never set aside the song form. A few years later, they returned full force. By 2012, they’d already won the Fade In Festival battle of the bands ZUS!, had been booked in Monkey Week, Vodafone Mexefest, Paredes De Coura, Bons Sons, had made it to the last round of the Thermometer Festival and were also selected as FNAC new talent and released their first concept album, The Misadventures Of Anthony Knivet.
The album received great reviews in Portugal, Spain, France and Italy and was lauded as one of the year’s best by various music publications. In 2014, after a year of touring, they traveled to Spain and started working on their new album.
While many surmise that FIRST BREATH AFTER COMA may be one of the great hopes for Portuguese music, those who have seen them live know this is already a certainty.
“Salty Eyes” is the first single from “Drifter” the newest album by First Breath After Coma
Video directed by Vasco Mendes, produced by Andrè Moura, Sound produced by First Breath After Coma and Filipe Rocha, mixed and mastered by Paulo Mouta Pereira & First Breath After Coma.
Omnichord Records, 2016
A video from the 2nd single of First Breath After Coma’s “The Misadventures Of Anthony Knivet” with Pedro Oliveira as Mr. Knivet.
Directed by Edurado Brito, Camera by David Ferreira.
2013, Omnichord Records
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