Oct 14

Gloam's ‘Well Dwelling’ heralds bombastic moments of Isis aligned with the intricacies of Deftones

REVIEW: Gloam - 'Well Dwelling' EP

GLOAM are a progressive-heavy rock/post-shoegaze band from Boorloo, Western Australia and they’ve just dropped their 5 track EP entitled “Well Dwelling.”

Well Dwelling is an EP which taps into this mix of progressive rock that meets with shoegaze. There’s an ethereal otherworldly quality layered with atmospheric that enhance this sound which is quite typical of the Western Australian prog rock stratosphere.

Vocally it’s reminiscent of Sound Awake era Karnivool without ascending into the higher register with soaring guitar riffs that have more in common with groups like Mogwai and sleepmakeswaves. There are even moments that feel a little like Porcupine Tree’s The Incident like in the track “Hinder” as the time signature slows to a methodical beat crushing all in its wake.

You’ll hear the styles of many different international bands going on but specifically, the second track heralds bombastic moments of Isis and aligned with the intricacies of Deftones, with not only the guitar work but also in the structure of the song.

The atmospherics, for instance, tend to break up the tracks quite well, although I can’t help but feel like We’ll Dwelling is a testing ground for their next album, both stylistically and in the arrangement of its song-writing.

But if I’m looking to one track as the prime example of what you’ll hear throughout the EP then “Hinder” would be it. If you can’t get into that track then you won’t get into the rest of the EP as it evokes more a sense of different musical movements rather than songs.

And this is why Gloam's Well Dwelling is My Kind of Weird.