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
VIDEO: Cruel Black Dove - Love Song
Last week we introduced you to Cruel Black Dove, a bluesy darkwave band from Brooklyn who blend Kills-like sass and '80s goth sensibilities into tracks like their current single "Love Song". The band have released a video for "Love Song", which is the perfect visual representation of what the band is going for: dark and awesome. Check out the bassist! Badass.
The band are playing legendary underground club Crashin' In on Thursday at Galapagos in Brooklyn, so be sure to check them out!
DOWNLOAD: Cruel Black Dove - Love Song
Like a dark version of Yaz fronted not by Alison Moyet but Melissa Auf der Maur (stay with us on this one), Cruel Black Dove sound exactly like you’d expect band called Cruel Black Dove to sound: sex, spite, angst, hurt and revolution. The band are from Brooklyn and only formed last year, but if they continue cranking out the darkwave blues numbers, they’re sure to be a hit. We just signed CBD to RCRD LBL, and are expecting to hear many more gems like “Love Song” in the future. Enjoy!
Sounds like: Depeche Mode, Siouxie Sioux, Auf der Maur
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