Metz – Up On Gravity Hill

2024-04-23 19:31:05

from Oliver
am 23. April 2024
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Should shoegaze trips thanks TikTok might now actually be an unconditional guarantee for a veritable boost in popularity Metz just because of the closer of their fifth studio album Up on Gravity Hill actually go through the roof a bit.

Light Your Way Home finally lies softly and warmly in his guitar swaths, searches for the harmonious duet with Amber Webber in a dreamily engaging and longing way and, as an in-house masterpiece of special radiance and instant annual highlight, cultivates the beauty of the aesthetic sound that is inherent in shoegaze.
That Metz to appear on the radar of a broader public would be deserved and is entirely possible, but the culminating potential of being more suitable for the masses is also due to the 29 minutes preceding this conclusion, which, despite an undeniable signature, are by no means exclusively typical Metz-Work patterns: the Canadians have their noise rock four years later Atlas Vending (in which mainly collaborations with Joe Talbot, Mission of Burma and Adulkt Life happened) a little polished (without smoothing the edges) and the impetuous rawness was translated into a much more melodic, accessible spectrum. 99 is, for example, “99 Nine nine nine nine nine nine/ Nine nine nine“-Percent probably as much sing-along pop with a straight hook as the bullies from, who are still brushed once morest the grain Metz it might probably be.

Which, by the way, is not an extravagant extreme, but rather a completely coherent facet in the context and the fundamental course correction. No Reservation / Love Comes Crashing swirls as a two-part statement over six and a half fabulous minutes with an announcement, adorns itself with hallucinogenic textures and takes the twist towards the middle, releases the handbrake into the straighter rock trance and dives into one’s own love on the psychedelic highway My Bloody Valentine subversive year. Glass Eye twists and grooves into the stoic beat, where the guitars start up like nebulous machines and oscillate along – a hit? In any case, the rhythm section then acts in a similar way Entwined (Street Light Buzz)its frame B.L.U.R.E.M.I. adapted as a step on the punk rock pedal and Alex Edkins’ vocals symptomatically no longer attack the structure venomously, but capriciously ensnare it.

In Superior Mirage assimilate Metz with a peaceful touch, calm post punk patterns and lurk in bittersweet, catchy harmonies, also simply a little more harmless than before, meanwhile the grungy rumbling Wound Tight is easy to grasp and quick to grasp (and is still relatively easy to forget when you are not consuming it). It’s not all smooth, but it’s not as attractively provocative as you’re used to from the Canadian trio – and it always leaves the impression that there was more to it; that the band has made itself a little too comfortable outside of their comfort zone in a new favor with crisp single suitability.
Which once more, following Never Still Again with weird factor and menace along with a slight 90s anthem, but also too Light Your Way Home leads: a perfectly formed evolutionary leap as the culmination of an ambivalent, yet consistently delivering transition record.

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