Sad Sun EP
What:
Sad Sun EP
Who:
Naked On The Vague
Where:
Missing Link / Sabbatical Shop
MySpace:
here
Launch:
This Sat Sept 1, Forepaw, 275 High St Northcote, with Always, Fabulous Diamonds, Absoluten Calfeutrail and Young Romantix
Related Links:
NOTV live / Sabbatical blog
Naked On The Vague are thrillingly deep in a woods all their own on Sad Sun - a new EP on rising Melbourne label, Sabbatical Records. No one in the country makes claim to as spectrally macabre or chilly territory as this eerie Sydney duo right now, whose sound has moved from bracing synth punk (see DualPlover debut 7") to a full-blown Gothic expression of cosmic dread on this, only their second release. Atmosphere is all-important here; a subtle attitude of awed listening persists as if for the scratching of unknown, outside shapes at the universe's outmost, darkest rim.
The five new songs are heavy and enchanting like the cracking drift of glacial pack ice. Opener ‘Horse Pt. 2' is a Carny gaze-number with echoes of La Monte Young's drone and weird Pan flute. ‘White Blanket' gets darker with a machine-driven pulse and ominous, growled refrain; ‘Cover your eyes with a white blanket / Smother your face with a pillowcase'. ‘Blood Pressure' has a spine-chilling whistle and feedback harmony in the breakdown, and closer ‘Sad Sun' reminds of Current 93's demon-folk stylings. These are telekinetic hymns of doomed pleasure. Current Mood: Moonstruck.
Release: EP
To Cure: Hypertension
Keywords: Bands, Sabbatical, Missing Link
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