Track Of The Day ELBOWSWAY
From a fan comment on their Bandcamp, we believe that the four-piece elbowsway is the first Shoegaze band in the history of Uzbekistan, in Central Asia.
Hailing from the capital Tashkent, elbowsway rolled up their debut single, “Common Sense”, via Boshqa Musiqa, which shows a reinvigorating, rousing and modern sublimation of the 90s Alt-Rock/Shoegaze patterns, peppered with a swirling blend of Post-Grunge, Nu-gaze and Emo-Hardcore inflexions, amid echoes of Nothing, Narrow Head, Cloakroom and Deftones, all brimming with a huge emotional heft.
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Achingly melodic and stirringly floaty, swaying between dreamy tension and crushing release, “Common Sense”, lyric-wise, is about loss, fear, division, and hopelessness.
The track roars and swaggers from the starting block with abrasive chugging riffage, to stretch out, upheld by the steady drive of busy stumbling drums and dense bass lines, in hovering layers of churning and droney weighty distortion, laced with harrowing, soaring high-pitched wails, juxtaposing reflective pain-filled introspections and frantic blasting surges, together with sad, lonely, high-strung vocals, falling through tumultuous, endless vortexes of sweeping despair.
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