Namaste

Since June a new wind blows through your domestic stereo and we don’t mean a tepid breeze, but a proper hurricane, fascinating everybody who gets close.
This doesn’t mean Namasté’s debut album sounds like a natural disaster, far from it, “Outside Is Endless” absorbs the listener right from the start and lets him live through a wide spectrum of emotions.
The opener steadily varies from powerful to easy melodies while the catchy singing of Sam Marlow polishes the song. Such a striking voice, which doesn’t avoid high notes, is not often heard.
This style, diversified parts within a song, is a common theme on the album.
Muse, Incubus, Tool, but also older stuff such as Led Zeppelin say hello, but with the headstrong mixture of styles a new musical feeling arises.
With the song “Catharsis” it seems like the band actually had to get rid of some inner conflicts and displaced emotions. It starts with an empathetic melody, accompanied just with guitar and bass, the drums set in gradually. The calm before the storm just lasts for approximately 1 ½ minutes before the quiet melody undergoes a rockin’ metamorphosis.
The extreme length of most of the songs is quite striking as well. The clear winner is “Illusion” which draws the attention with his 9 minutes of proud length. If you now think of boredom you’re completely wrong, with its intensity, you get lost in the music as well as in time.
Points: 8/10
- SLAM Magazine

Did you ask yourself how the future of rock sounds?
Who could save guitar music?
Namasté is the answer.
Quite often we report about young and hip rock bands from the UK. Again we are talking about great guitar music from the island… but different! Namasté have nothing in common with garage and indie-disco. Their role models are Tool, Muse, Led Zeppelin and Deftones. The band relocated to Vienna, to record their first album “Outside Is Endless”.
To comment on these 60 minutes you could use the Frank Zappa quote: “To write about music is like dance architecture.” He is so right.
From the gloomy, Tool-esque, sound of the opener “Last Rites”, the frenetic rockin “Dark Lights…” to the soulful, top-heavy “With All The Other Rats” – Namasté cover a wide spectrum.
“Expired” is a little hit, distinctive with his stunner. “Brave Little Phantom” builds bridges to the 60s and finally “Illusion”, the 9 minutes long endless jam, a neck-breaker, cleverly feigns an ending just to break out even louder and more clamant. The great Muse moment “Lacrimosa” completes a storming album.
Without a doubt, “Outside Is Endless” is one of the most stunning debut albums of the year.
Despite their long list of role models, Namasté manage to sound fresh and jaunty.
What stays, is a gloomy, top-heavy, rock bastard, who can take on with the big ones of the genre.
Beyond all question, those guys need to be discovered!
- Szene1

The British Way Of Life? As a musician this way is sometimes quite confused: in the homeland quite small one looks for its label in Austria and agitates there strongly the scene around them.

You can also make it that way: while young Austrian musicians are complaining, that you can't make it in your home country, Sam, Mike, Chris and Dan are coming to Vienna and are playing themselves into the hearts of their (not only female) fans.

So why are Austrian bands failing? Sure thing} just these musicians, who are complaining the most, are no good; in any case not as good as Namaste! They have there audience under control from the first sound on, let Tool and Incubus become one and decorate their sound with lyrics in Jim Morrison quality. Namaste recorded and mixed their new record 'Outside Is Endless' with producer Andreas Fennes at ‘What’s That Noise’ Studios. The final Product doesn’t reach their live/ quality, but it does not hide their energy, with which they are standing behind their music.

If the listener wants to experience his own Catharsis, probably the so named Namaste song is enough, get lost in the noisy excursions of the band that stays on the ground and never sounds too much.

4/5 - Ecorder.at