Active intermittently since around 2013, debuting with a REM-style jangle rock, the Leeds, UK three-piece Avacet is back to deliver an angular and moody melodic Post-punk sound built of effect-laden ringing guitars, offer a beacon of light into their darkness, thrumming bass, driving percussion, and intense vocal delivery.
The latest and third single of the ‘new course’, “Second Skin” is about having a broken inner mirror that projects and reflects falsehoods upon the world, ourselves, and others.
More jittery and obsessive, than the cascading glistening arpeggios of the hauntingly reflective single, “Colony” from last year, the song unfolds off steady urgent drums, and humming pulsing bass lines, insistently pierced by obsessively meandering thorny layers of sharp-edged, serrated guitar riffs, that stretch and ripple with poignant lambent sorrow against wistful, slightly angsty vocal introspection.
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