Postcards

Postcards come from Beirut and somehow also from the indie rock campus of a US college, at least as far as their mastery of the genre is concerned. On their third album "After the Fire, Before the End", released in 2021, they deal with everything that happened in Lebanon in the months before (protests, devastating explosion in Beirut harbor, complete government failure, electricity crisis, economic crisis). In the process, melodic subtlety meets the guitar sound typical of the genre and vocals that are unparalleled in their expression. Julia Sabra has a delivery that almost casually breathes forlornness and longing into the microphone. Sabra's thoughtful voice, the atmospherically dense playing of her band colleagues and a songwriting characterized by delicate yet catchy harmonies make Postcards some of the best the genre has to offer. Solid shoegazer dream pop that combines lush indie guitars with ethereal vocals and dreamy melodies. Existentially beautiful.