Repeat plays have
ensured the album has now taken on a warm reaffirming glow of familiarity, and
its content hits the spot in terms of my own genre preferences, with equal
portions dark post-punk, shoegaze, and synthpop ticking many of the boxes I
hold near and dear.
Which is always a good start. In fact, you’d probably have to go back to the Fazerdaze debut of 2017, or The Beths release of a year later, to find a local debut album that has made the same sort of instant impact on me. Without fitting into the exact same genre box, of course.
‘Honeycomb’ is a terrific opener and it sets out the band’s stall for what awaits, which is a collection of strong tunes driven by copious amounts of fuzzy guitar, solid rhythms, and (mostly) Hayley Smith’s excellent vocals - frequently layered to good affect, and sometimes cleverly buried deeper within the mix.
They’re mostly songs about the life, love, and loss, plus there’s commentary about mental health, and a few of the more challenging facets of that thing we call the human condition. It can be quite an intense listen. Which suits me fine.
Nine tracks all up, clocking in at just over half an hour. Beyond ‘Honeycomb’ (below), the hidden treasures include ‘Talk Show Goth’, ‘Dead Together’, and the title track which closes out the album.
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