There’s something very cool simmering to the surface in the Montreal underground music scene that I think Third Eye readers will enjoy.
Pangea De Futura is a mega-jam collective comprised of many Montreal scene veterans. They describe themselves as a wide range of tectonic plates crashing together, making the world stop for a second and ripping these continents apart. It’s an epic description worthy of their music.
It’s an octet supergroup led by Eric Quach, a seasoned musician, and includes three drummers, guitar, synth, and brass players, all of whom are also involved in other Montreal-based bands such as Godspeed You Black Emperor, Exhaust, Hanged Up, and more. Pangea De Futura brings together the merged and emerging territories of Montreal’s exploratory music scene, and with their debut album, War Milk, they create a fantastic collection of instrumental songs.
Since 2019, Pangea De Futura has been exploring the many ways of slowly building massive textural musical shapes and droning tribal post-rock ambiances. Each track on War Milk simultaneously encapsulates a structure emerging from and within a flux. The intense drones and soundscapes created by the group remind me very much of a similar Italian group, San Leo.
War Milk consists of four lengthy experimental tracks that seem capable of bending space-time and opening portals to new dimensions. “Little Black Eyes” is the definition of intense, cinematic instrumental music, a song awash in harsh but fluid textures and accompanied by excellent percussion. “With Many Legs” feels not of this world—maybe some extraterrestrial place the supergroup has traveled to, and they brought back a sonic treasure.
“Global Ocean” is a disjointed experimental delight. The disorienting electronic sequences bleed into a messy post-rock mode where the mega-jam collective explores, gets lost, and finds a home in the chaos. “Laurasia Coin” ends the record in a more subdued ambient mood. Pangea De Futura floats in the ether, crafting a closing song full of soft and eccentric sounds.
Fans of experimental instrumental music should love War Milk by Pangea De Futura. It’s a collection of four solid songs formed in the depths of Montreal’s exploratory underground scene that I’m glad I stumbled across.
Check out War Milk by Pangea De Futura on Bandcamp here.
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