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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