Track Of The Day SCATTERED ASHES
The abrasive Dublin goth two-piece Scattered Ashes delivers a both deep and edgy, as well as elegant and danceable blend of stark Post-punk tension and brooding Darkwave atmospherics with nightly electronic undertones, firmly rooted in the ’80s aesthetics, nodding to Joy Division/New Order, The Chameleons, Whipping Boys, Interpol and Editors, yet replete with a modern, earnest and urgent attitude.
Following last year’s sophomore EP “All That Is Solid Melts Into Air,” the Irish duo have dropped the double A-side single, “We Sell Silence” / “Prisoners.”
Dealing with suicidal ideation, Fate, and the desire to leave the body, the highly emotional, regretful melancholy of “Prisoners” stirs up springy and humming sullen bass pulses, unrelentingly stabbed by lashing drum patterns, sneakingly swaying with doleful and wailing swirls of effect-driven guitar textures, awash in icy, desolate ghostly synth drifts, over haunted, alluring baritones releasing an agony and ecstasy of metaphysical suggestions.
As an ideal counterpoint, the compelling, jagged and shadowy “We Sell Silence,” stretched by a thoughtful reflection about the corrosive nature of apathy through a lens of global horror and political impotence, unleashes tight clattering rhythms, piercing, overdriven guitar soars and an angst-ridden distorted vocal delivery, to conjure an angry, helpless sadness.
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