DOWNLOAD: SALEM - Whenusleep
SALEM make the most physically affecting new music I've heard in years. The trio, based in the Midwest of the United States, are often compared to the likes of My Bloody Valentine or Cocteau Twins but - while they admit the pair as influences, alongside Juke, Trap Music and other regional US dance/hip-hop variants - all SALEM really share with the shoegazers is an ability to warp time; their slurred, dream-like jams descending like a chill in a room or a weight upon your shoulders. Thankfully, as "Whenusleep" testifies, SALEM's music is also intensely beautiful, Heather Marlot's coquettish vocal seeming to lead Jack Donoghue's beats tumbling from sanity's pedestal. Third member John Holland oversees to ensure the whole thing's as sparse, guilty and rotten as the knot in the gut of a treacherous lover.
Sounds Like: The Knife, My Bloody Valentine, Quest
