What is most exciting about this endeavor is what it might say about the band’s future, through the foreshadowed new directions. There are nods to industrial and ambient music on “Bleeding Out,” shades of emotive post-rock on “Kids,” straight up death metal on “Punishment Box” and even subtle hyper-pop influence on “TAH”.
Prior to relocating, Deliluh made brooding post-rock, with all the requisite guitar noise and deadpan spoken word lyrics it entails. The lineup change gives Deliluh the opportunity to diversify their pallet, embracing aspects of drone, industrial rock, and ambient, where Knapp’s poetry is able to shine more prominently.
Otoboke Beaver make music that should, in theory, get stuck in your head. The incendiary Japanese punk quartet do not bide their time racing to a refrain, and when they get there they tend to sing it loud, over and over. As determined as they are to discover some infectious new chant or groove, they appear just as determined to move on to the next one.
“Flying White Nimbus” is not the only song off the band’s succinct and exuberant new album, 10 Colours, that sounds like it starts in the middle—as if you just stumbled upon a passionate rehearsal. Today the Alberta-based trio have dropped a new video for the song, collaborating with animator and multidisciplinary artist Helen Young.
It’s been almost three years since the Brooklyn electronic trio released their second LP, Duo Duo—the strongest expression of the group’s krautrock, art-pop and occasionally post-punk sensibilities thus far. Deep Break is three songs long, which according to the band’s Twitter were taken from an aborted full-length album.
