Cranes - Wings Of Joy (1LP Coloured) Post-Punk Artwork by Kii Arens •

Artwork by Kii Arens • Photo by Hedi Slimane

Yet it's about as far from nostalgia as you could get

of course: while the world was still reeling from their 2014 breakthrough psych-punk masterpiece I’m In Your Mind Fuzz (2014) they casually released 2015’s expectation-confounding Paper Mache Dream Balloon (2015)

Koen Holtkamp - Voice Model

Cranes - Wings Of Joy (1LP Coloured) Post-Punk Artwork by Kii Arens •Cranes' first full length album Wings of Joy was released back in 1991. The strange combination between gothic sounds on one side and the dream pop on marked a new decennia of music. It's one of those debut releases which throws you straight into the deep end. The varied tracks alternated between the heavier and lighter songs. It is gloomy, haunting and almost sinister in its atmosphere despite being made up almost entirely of piano and synth melodies.