Founded back in 2019 and tirelessly in the studio or on tour ever since, Tapir! have achieved something that few bands seem to be able to do in the streaming era: They avoid the grind and the waste of capitalism yet still generate a lot of hype. But it wasn’t just the British arts pages that were singing the group’s praises at the beginning of the year when their debut album and conceptual work, “The Pilgrim, Their God And The King Of My Decrepit Mountain”, was released. It is a story steeped in cryptic references about a wanderer in search of personal salvation, a paradise without a name. Lined with chamber orchestral arrangements and sepia-coloured folk aesthetics, the six-piece collective create pastoral post-rock poetry with almost cinematic radiance in an eclectic frenzy. From Walt Whitman to Meister Eckhart, from Explosions In The Sky to Nick Drake, and even from The Postal Service to Jethro Tull – the sources of inspiration for this project seem endless. Just like listeners’ fascination with their music.