In the grip of bad desire, a dropped pick is unable to silence the hungry-hearted time travel of downz, a rock artifact from early Winter 2015. Behold a miraculous transmission via the future, a future that sounds like the past. GASHRAT’s three small fires fit in the tinderbox of rock drench. They aid recklessness and release.
Recorded into muscle memory, then seated and panned in the mix, the songs’ parts drift. Drift is the charmer here. The languid strums create variabilities that brush and nearly topple the partitions. The sturdy and stinted measures of rhythm and riff balance them.
“Median,” the centerpiece of this brief release, is a real sizzler. It is executed at a leisurely torso tempo and accompanied by the spirit of hophead loitering. The trio of assured guitars churn away with loose throttle, nudged by spare drums. It nearly wigs out, but remains on the grounds. The racing thoughts are confined to a cerebral space. The vessel is vital enough to handle malnourishment and volume, keen enough to dodge excess, strong enough to bend and flex, flagrant enough to arouse suspicion.
• GASHRAT: http://gashrat.bandcamp.com
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