Loophole - 3-track demo
Starting with a fuzz of noise and developing into a hard, mechanical,
electro-tinted rock, a sound which calls to mind howling subway tunnels
and
flickering florescent lighting, this overload of a cd has too much happening
in it to be digested in one sitting. An aural onslaught of looping,
whorling vocals over stilted, tumbling riffs(for comparisons think the
theatrical stylings of Muse coupled with elements of Radiohead) it sounds
too varied and electric to be made by mere guitars and carries a breathless
sense of being continually just about to explode but never quite doing
so. It's urgent sounding music, but performed in a manner so stylised
that the emotion doesn't carry - like watching a disaster on a screen
or monitor, it has an almost sterile, once-removed yet involving quality
to it. The entwining weave of double vocals and guitars is almost confusing
listening but it never loses its sense of clarity and purpose - like
data flickering and feeding across a computer screen, there's a logic
in there somewhere.
Murky and watery but with a sense of space behind it, confused and distorted
but maintaining a musical clarity: the last-gasp stutterings of electrical
equipment just before malfunction, the warped scratching of skipping
cds and tapes in the process of being chewed up. This slightly disconcerting
and utterly involving demo walks a fine line, and walks it with style.
by Holli(l)y
Loophole website
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