Friday, December 13, 2013

Flirtation - Burrrn

[link] On the punk side of shoegaze but not gratingly so.  The real SG element is the bass/chord combination in the 2nd phrase of the verse.  That is a signature with a lot of narrative content. I'm beginning to be convinced that the poetics of these simple musical elements set the entire atmospheric for SG.  It's not post-apocalyptic.  But it's a spent, urban, suburban, or heavily disturbed rural landscape.  It's bleak.  But as with gothic poetics, there is extreme romanticism present.  Still working articulating this...

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