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What the f*ck?? What the f*cking f*ck??
It’s the one practical response to those darkish, divisive and harmful instances. How do you react? How do you’re feeling? How do you soundtrack? Immersion, the undertaking of put up punk musical architects Colin Newman (Wire) and Malka Spigel (Minimal Compact) and Matt Schulz (Holy F*ck, Savak & Lake Ruth), have reacted with a startling album that mixes the journey of put up punk to the probabilities of digital.
All the time creatively stressed, Immersion have created an ideal Venn diagram mixture of not simply their inside core of Colin Neman and Malka Spigel but in addition an ideal synthesis of previous, current, and future with a sensible put up punk digital on an album of brooding uncertainty to match these troubled instances.
Including a really fashionable sheen with a crisp, concise manufacturing that permits the songs to breathe, Immersion stays completely in tune with post-punk’s stressed innovation while craftily creating melodic, darkish forest pop songs that ought to sit simply on each night and daytime radio.
There are, in fact, echoes of each their distant pasts: both Malka’s aural adventures in Minimal Compact together with her minimalist bass runs or Colin’s groundbreaking journeys with Wire, and their vocals on the non-instrumental tracks weave across the melodies with a deadpan supply that craftily embraces a melodic ebb and stream. The overarching ambiance on the album is a resigned commentary on the world going to hell in a handcart in a time when fairly clever considering that couches this creativity is pushed to the aspect by high-decibel sizzling air…WTF certainly!
Regardless of this, the tune cycle is a fascinating journey into sound that makes nice play of the tune’s hooks with each their vocals entwining to deliver a tuneful elixir to the sparse, hypnotic tune buildings. There’s additionally a playfulness and a pleasure of creation within the mesmerising soundscapes and an album that ought to see Immersion step additional out from the shadows of each their superb pasts and forge a brand new frontier.
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