Track Of The Day SMALL PLEASURES
Fresh from last December’s Japanese tour, as you can see in the video below, Small Pleasures, the DIY Post-Punk duo from Victoria, British Columbia, made up of Viny (Bass/Vocals) and Nevada (Drums/Vocals/Synth), has ushered the new year with the single “Juno.”
Through the use of stripped-down ‘guitarless’ instrumentation built on blistering drumming, droning bass progressions, swelling 6-string-like synth distortion, and dual resounding vocalizations, the band molds the late 70s/80s edgy coldness of post-punk and the 90s atmospheric textured shoegaze abrasiveness together, to create, through a relentless build-up of hazy tension, something intense, sludgy, dark and absolutely captivating, peppered with a peppy modern flair.
A song about being stuck in between running away, saying goodbye or letting go, “Juno” impels ceaselessly tight, stomping drum beats and thick ascending moody bass lines, jitteringly pounding with gusts of murky thrumming energy against glowing reverberations and raising piercing leads over slightly scared, not very emotional, spoken word vocals, amid haunted female backups, powerfully releasing fear.
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