Biography
Airships on the Water is an instrumental post rock band from Fayetteville, AR, USA, formed by multi-instrumentalist Russel Hensley. Hensley, who plays drums for the math rock band Take Shapes, started the project as a way to experiment with and expand on a backlog of keyboard riffs and drum parts he had written.
Drawing inspiration from the infectious hooks of El Ten Eleven, the emotional power of Explosions in the Sky, and the rhythmic complexity of Japanese post rockers Toe, Hensley started writing and overdubbing new parts to flesh out the sound of his existing arrangements. He carefully layered beautiful keyboard melodies, bass guitar hooks, intricate drum patterns, and rich synth textures onto these skeletal arrangements, shaping them into catchy instrumental post rock songs.
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Airships on the Water's debut album Beneath a Thousand Branches is a true DIY labor of love, being written, performed, recorded, and mixed entirely by Hensley. It was released on June 26, 2017, and is available at airshipsonthewater.bandcamp.com. It can also be found on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and many other streaming services and retailers. It sounds like hooks and hooks and hooks and drums.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.