BELLA535V
Release Date: 17 June 2016
"Yet, for all their anger and fiery passion on A Hermitage, Jambinai are at their most moving when reduce their ire and create more drawn out, ambient compositions. The repetitive, circular motifs on "For Everything That You Lost" gradually change with great poise and subtlety, moving into a wonderful crescendo of clean guitars and sparse piano notes. It is a a piece of music just as beautiful and moving as the closing track ("Connection") from their 2012 masterpiece Différance." - Line of Best Fit
"On A Hermitage, what this translates to musically is a combined sense of sprawling vacuum, of the infinite nothing and instant gratification that so dominate our everyday lives. There’s more empty space on this album, requiring more participation, than anything in Godspeed!’s back catalogue, but the longest track clocks in it a meagre seven minutes and thirty seconds. It’s indicative of a society that, through our social media channels and scrolling news, requires full investment in every issue – if only for one day." - The Quietus
"With their second album, Jambinai prove themselves equally innovative and avant-garde. Utilising traditional Korean instruments such as the fiddle-like haegeum, piri (a bamboo flute) and geomungo (Korean zither) alongside guitars, they weave largely instrumental tapestries depicting fear, isolation and, in places, a cautious hope." - Loudersound