A Tempo! A Tempo!

Track Listing Calendaria (An Introduction) Bellydancer Dogged Idiom's Palace Per Sonare Phantom Of My Longest Day Mehrklang Eye's A Window Clock Shock And Freedom Delivery Man (Duane! Duane!) Libido's Regime   Description   "You are gently requested to shit like a swan!" opens Valina's third full-length, A Tempo! A Tempo! Throughout the Austria-based trio's 11 year history the band has developed a name for themselves with stellar releases and relentless touring throughout the globe (by some counts, 75854 shows). The new album offers a meaty, booming dose of technical rock which is easily their finest work to date. With A Tempo! A Tempo! Valina combine passages of sheer beauty with intense outbursts of abstract guitar noise into pure (math? post?) rock fury. Jaw-dropping musicianship informs a uniquely rhythmic, harmonious, and ultimately unclassifiable blend of riff-heavy rock.  A distinctly "un-American" sound helps distinguish Valina from their [enter prefix here]-rock con