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A Burial At Sea drop a Morbidly Beautiful Single
'More; Less' is the latest single from dream rock outfit, A Burial At Sea. A musical project which released its second LP, Close to Home, only last year. An album which saw music critics turn their heads at the Irish band. With most looking at Close to Home with a passable level of shoegaze postrock. Boolin Tunes called the album "far from being shoehorned into a soundtrack-core genre" while Everything Is Noise said "it bleeds passion from top to bottom."
Moving on to this latest single, 'More; Less", you get a track that taps into the ethereal-like darkness that is commonplace for bands like Pelican and Mogwai. Hardly a surprise when Pelagic Records labelmates like The Ocean and MONO can be counted amongst their peers.
If the begrudgingly slow, void-heavy, ethereal post-rock-scape is something you're after to cure those morning blues then 'More; Less" will probably be your kind of weird. It starts with an atmosphere of ambient noises that echo-in from the depths of hell before entering a fray distortion-ladened noise in the vein of Mogwai or Isis's heavier moments. The kind of style which saw the late 80s evolution of Brit-rock flirt with the relentless noise-porn of Industrial artists like Godflesh.
The guitars ascend into this rumbling melody, the heart and soul of the track, allowing for a mix of intricately light strumming and bleak moans in the wind. It's atmospheric-rock at its best, oft-flirting with soundtrack storytelling which echoes feelings of loss, loneliness and isolation. Were 'More; Less' a character in its own movie I would say it's an empath to the lives lived and loves lost in a creepy, rundown, old shack of despair. Existing somewhere in the ecosphere of where good and bad feelings go to die. A void that is longing to forever exist in its own pit of nothingness. Completely nihilistic and yet, morbidly beautiful.
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