Taking their name from the German mountain flower and the namesake of that song from The Sound Of Music, I might have thought that this band played something much softer and more delicate, like psych-folk or something along those lines, if this hadn't been released through Prodisk, a label that is primarily known for putting out French Canadian grindcore and death metal. Edelveiss are heavier than their name suggests, but this is also something quite different from the usual blast violence that I get from Prodisk; this quartet hails from Montreal, and plays an all-instrumental kind of space rock mixed with heavy drone riffs and a flair for long, complicated song arrangements and slow builds into cinematic crescendos. Yeah, there is more than a passing resemblance to Godspeed You Black Emperor in Edelveiss's epic sky-reaching instrumentals, but the band also incorporates lots of proggy touches and, most of all, a constant cloud of whooshing, bleeping space FX that swoop and shimmer above the band's moody, droning riffs and sludgy tempos. Their debut has three songs, but each one is pretty long, sometimes reaching up to eighteen minutes in length; each song builds an eerie atmosphere out of moody clean guitar harmonies and repetitious minor key arpeggios with those electronic textures and heavier, distorted guitar drones swelling and surging over them, the drums going from hypnotic, near-motorik pulses to crushing doomy dirge and adorning the beats with interesting percussive textures like the metallic tinkle of bells or chimes and washes of sizzling cymbals. The arrangements are dramatic and intricate, taking the song through multiple peaks and valleys as Edelveiss build their moody ambient prog-metal narratives, like a space rock-infatuated Red Sparowes maybe, or a mix of Godspeed You Black Emperor and Hawkwind, Mogwai and King Crimson, Tangerine Dream and Mono wound into dark celestial rock soundscapes.