Microtonic bdrmm

• 1 goit 02:41
• 2 John on the Ceiling 03:38
• 3 Infinity Peaking 05:41
• 4 Snares 04:41
• 5 In the Electric Field 05:42
• 6 Microtonic 03:05
• 7 Clarkycat 05:41
• 8 Sat in the Heat 04:22
• 9 Lake Disappointment 03:29
• 10 The Noose 05:36
• Total Runtime 44:36

Info for Microtonic

On their third album, the post-shoegaze dreampop band from Hull in the north of England moves through often somewhat dark, atmospherically wafting song landscapes in which analogue-electronic influences play a greater role than on the previous album. It is a world in which Weird New Wave influences from bands such as Legendary Pink Dots play just as much of a role as longing songs in which they pile up many sounds into huge mountains of synth clouds, which are then cut through by a guitar. A breakbeat also sometimes provides incisive energy, as in ‘Lake Disappointment’, ‘John on the Ceiling’ also reaches for a danceable beat late at night and ‘Infinity Peak’, which has a great chorus and drills its way into the ear canals, sums up the forlornness of a generation perfectly.

bdrmm fit right in on Rock Action. They don't sound exactly like Mogwai, but they seem to share the Scottish post rockers' interest in widening the limitations of guitar music. On the surface, bdrmm are a proper band in the traditional sense, but 'Microtonic' looks further outside the box, drawing in elements from ambient, acid house, techno and dubstep to sound something like Pye Corner Audio remixing New Order. Using woozy analogue synths and a grinding 4/4, they give a nod to Chris Morris on 'Clarkycat', while 'Snares' sounds like a sped-up, new wave answer to Radiohead's iconic 'Idioteque' and the almost beatless title track sounds like a distorted offcut from the 'Stranger Things' OST.

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While the world became socially distanced in 2020, Hull’s post-shoegaze, dream pop, heavy guitar effects quartet bdrmm made the kind of impact with their debut album any young band would dream about. Released on the small Sonic Cathedral label in July that year, Bedroom was hailed as “a heady, forward-thinking shoegaze distillation” by Clash magazine. Mojo said that the band tread the “queasy tightrope of prime Cure, Ride etc. with real dexterity.” The Guardian proclaimed “one of the underground hits of lockdown,”, while NME awarded the album five solid stars and called Bedroom nothing less than “a modern day shoe gaze classic.”

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