Tag: Heavy Age (Unwed Sailor album)

Unwed Sailor’s Instrumental Post-Rock Single “Don’t Let Go” is a Buoyant Celebration of Personal Connection

Unwed Sailor, photo by Alejandro Martinez

In the music video for Unwed Sailor’s “Don’t Let Go” we see images of hands being drawn and hands in action through what appears to be the filter of an old VHS tape with the visual glitches like the video equivalent of developing old film or a series of Polaroids that have had some time to age into the images looking like an artifact from another era. The song itself has a joyous and upbeat mood with an expansive melody that feels like a spirit of anticipation and hopefulness. Sometimes the band’s music can seem introspective and this is not the opposite so much in that what reflection one can hear in this song is projected forward to what lies ahead and the celebration of the personal connection inherent to the song title. Watch the video for “Don’t Let Go” on YouTube and follow Unwed Sailor at the links provided below. The new Unwed Sailor album Heavy Age released on May 3, 2026.

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Unwed Sailor Flexes Its Gift for Interlocking and Expressive Compound Rhythms on “Gone Jungle”

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Unwed Sailor, photo courtesy the artists

Unwed Sailor’s new album Heavy Age came out in May 2019, its first since 2008. The veteran post-rock band lead by former Pedro the Lion bassist Johnathan Ford excels at a balanced dynamism between all the instrumentation. Too often post-rock bands are dominated by guitar but the main melody at least on the band’s new single “Gone Jungle” is carried and even driven by buoyant bass chords. Keyboard texture-tones shimmer sharply throughout and the percussion switches smoothly between a tribal beat and a more prog rock style compound time signature. That kind of structure to the song, with its interlocking streams of sound, allows for a wide range of expression and an adaptive rhythm. The song evolved effortlessly from great forward momentum to introspective passages where minimal guitar figures stand out by not being flashy. That the emphasis is on the rhythm is what separates this song from a lot of post-rock where the atmosphere and melody is dominant. That Unwed Sailor is a trio makes this an even more impressive feature of the songwriting. “Gone Jungle” was recorded after the Heavy Age sessions and points to an interesting direction for the band going forward. Listen below and follow Unwed Sailor at the links provided.

soundcloud.com/unwedsailor
youtube.com/channel/UCQKDRn65yukvVuTuMyfjUXw
unwedsailor.bandcamp.com/album/heavy-age
twitter.com/unwedsailor
facebook.com/unwedsailor
instagram.com/unwedsailor