Empress – Grandma (You Lie)

Oct
26
posted by tommy

My teenagehood is built on a mixture of excruciatingly aggressive noisecore and pastoral vocal harmonies and I’ll level with you, you’re not about to hear any noisecore. The pastoral harmonies of those early years, the likes of Mountain Man or even Sydney’s lil ol’ Sleepyhands, those are twisted in here amongst kitchenware percussion, anarchic basslines and doubletime everything. Meet Naarm sextet Empress. Is it a name they’ll have to change soon because there are almost certainly 113 Norwegian black metal acts under that moniker? You bet your ass it is. You and me, we don’t care though, we’re hear for the sounds not the branding and the sounds are good gravy.

They’ve had a trio of releases this year but we’re talking about Grandma (You Lie) first and foremost. That’s the one described above and that’s the one you need to start with if you’re going to tap in with this act. The references land in places like Hiatus Kaiyote and tUnE-yArDs so you know the musicality’s gonna be on point, if nothing else.

Gleeful me, I got to do deliver the First Play of their brand new single on triple j Unearthed radio tonight and my good fortune is now yours – enjoy. It’s a change of pace but it comes equipped with this subtle undertow, a sherberty bass sound tentpoled by searing synths that swells into a proper wall of sounds.

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