Track Of The Day VACANT PAVEMENTS
Hailing from the always dynamic and polymath Glasgow music scene, although the dark styles form a negligible part of it, the young Scottish Post Punk unit Vacant Pavements, recently expanded to a trio with Darren Mulligan on lead guitar to back founding members Patrick McDermott on vocals & rhythm guitar, and Shannon Bell on bass & synth, follow up last May’s debut EP “The Cost Of Complacency”, with a new gripping gothic-tinged new single “With Open Arms,” paired with a both intoxicating and dangerous cover of the Bauhaus classic “Bela Lugosi Is Dead” on the flip.
Taking a cue from iconic bands such as the latter, Joy Division or Killing Joke, the band explores stark and uneasy introspective landscapes, awash with obscure uncanny shadows and emotionally ridden, highly strung tension.
The song deals with the captivating story of a sinister blood-stained vampire, afraid of being caught in the daylight, who seeks an invitation to be let inside, “With Open Arms.”
Relentless hard knocking skipping rhythm patterns and deep broody basslines menacingly punch a simmering river, wrapped in excruciating piercing distortions along with pain-filled acute reverberations, seamlessly flowing, edgily unstoppable, echoing the inner turmoil of a tortured soul in smouldering anticipation, encapsulated by seductively visceral and magnetic baritones, brimming to the bone with aching, devilish desire.
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