WL//WH Track Of The Day: KLANDESTINE “Essence​”

Track Of The Day  KLANDESTINE  

Hailing from the ever dynamic Indonesian underground music scene,  Tangerang-based Post-punk/Deathrock unit Klandestine has dropped a brand new maxi-single, “Essence / Worship”, on the local DIY label Forfun Cookies, which “aims to explore the deeper emotional aspects of human perception toward taboos and the uncertainties of life”.

Active since around 2013, with a same year’s 4-track “Sacred Sorrow” EP under their belt, the four-piece keeps on digging the dirgey goth punk sound from the ’80s full of desperation and anger, nodding to early Christian Death and Bauhaus’s eerie and haunted wicked atmospheres.

A depiction of the chasm between what is socially acceptable and the pursuit of a more authentic self, “Essence” rides on urgent skipping drumming and bleak, humming bass lines, whilst reverberating and lancinating shards of distorted wailing guitar glows alongside sweeping synth menace to inject atmospheric pain-fueled gloom around deep muffled baritone vocals, resonating like a primal demon amid a ‘chorus’ of droning echoes.

“Worship” delves into even more obsessive, foreboding and spectral, rhythmically syncopated, territories, by harnessing excruciating 6-string strains, swirling desolate keyboards and sinister bell tolls, while deep broody vocal epics celebrate darkness and confront those hiding in the grey areas.

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