WL//WH Track Of The Day CORAL SCULPTURES
What’s better than a band infused with the Antipodean introspective moody aesthetic of personal favourites such as The Chills, The Go-Betweens and unusually The Moffs.
This latter wondrous Sydney‘s psychedelic combo, whose unforgettable first 7″ single I happily purchased, at the time, a damn costly import copy, unusual to be deemed as an influence, albeit an absolutely welcome thing by the way.
Made of Nathan Savage (vox, guitar), Paula Hatton (vox, drums) and Callum Cusick (bass, guitar), the Tasmanian elusive trio Coral Sculptures‘ debut two-track single “Ariel // Close” wades through, with seamless naturalness and charm, softly droning shoegaze textures blended with ethereal, entrancing Dreampop atmospherics, soaked in a lingering desolate melancholy.
Imbued in an intimate elegiac tone blurring light and shadows, a stirring glistening arpeggio swells and sways into a flowing humming rivulet of shimmery strummed guitar melodies, steady drums and thick, both sonorous and fuzzy bass throbs, amid vibrant rhythmic jolts, poignant, uplifting swirling reverberations, and screechy bleeds of final palpitating despair, surrounding lonely angsty vocals achingly longing for ‘Ariel’, layered with echoing soft falling cries.
The immersive “Close” delves instead into an emotional-ridden, mesmerizing trance, built by slow-paced, metronomic pounding drum hits, subtly scraping guitar riffs, warm pulsing basslines, and shivering wistful brassy tones, to envelope cool immersive feather-light vocals, overlaying soft dreaminess with entrancing celestial brightness.
Coral Sculptures‘ debut two-track single “Ariel // Close” is out now on 10″ lathe cut vinyl and Digital.
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