A year ago the London-based band debuted with a very short EP called Oracle (or maybe it was a single as the songs are now used again). Now they finally show their first ever LP Infinite and as they have it in their modus operandi, they filled it with a blend of ethereal noise and post-punk coldness.
We are led to this black and white madness by a very post-rock-like instrumental intro but it is joined by vocals soon enough. These are so characteristic for the project: they are perfectly balanced as far as the distanced post-punk and distorted shoegaze characteristics are concerned. And in fact, this withdrawn, hidden in the backgrounds but also well audible style of singing makes the band's music extremely curious. In songs like Oracle or House of Lies, they sound also very, very catchy like it is the case in the best post-punk releases. Another thing is the music around the vocals. There's a clear bass line, but unlike in "real" coldwave, there's so much more going around it. The guitars create some pleasant noise that can lead to considerably loud finishes (again, in Oracle).
One other aspect here is important: the band's ease at creating mesmerizing passages that swallow the audience whole. There are fragments of the albums that were meant to be less catchy and more psychedelically engaging, sometimes in the style of 10 000 Russos' pure psychedelia, sometimes more like the KVB's dreamy noise rock - but always hypnotizing and making the time less important for the listener.
Infinite costs 7 GBP.
Check: Oracle
Country: UK
Genre: noisy post-punk
