Track Of The Day GLASSWING BUTTERFLY
More than a year and a half after releasing their second single, the North African Shoegaze project Glasswing Butterfly returns in full band format with “CTRL”, a song about not hiding what your true feelings are inside lest every daytime, or politically correct, lie told causes painful scars to the nighttime subconscious world.
The Tunis-based four-piece draws from the bleak yet thrilling tones of the early ’90s shoegaze sonic aesthetic and, more recently, Nothing, Whirr, and Trauma Ray, to churn out a droning and brooding ghostly expanse of seething, emotionally ridden shoegaze epic.
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“CTRL” is pushed forward by scattered and thumping out of pace drum beats, that punctuate unrelenting slow-swaying and swarming waves, densely layered in swirling fuzz-drenched distortion, pierced through by bleeding screechy guitar slivers, rising and falling over drowsy, dreamy, slightly sung vocals, glazed with agitated angst and distorted spoken words, to call forth a sense of drifting in and out of different thought forms.
A visualizer by Youssef Handouse places strobing lights and window screen filters over an array of building demolitions that move backward into their original created form. Then, aerial views of the city at night combine with the lyrics to give hope and encouragement to those who are trying to stay true to themselves, whilst also syncing seamlessly with the immersive free flow of the soundtrack.
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