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This Night Creeps: The Noise of Music

This Night Creeps have shared live bills with Die!Die!Die! and The Mint Chicks and it's not entirely unfair to lump them all together as semi-goth art students purveying a brand of shouty, angular agit pop influenced by Mars Volta/Sparta/At the Drive In. Some tracks (is These Kisses are Scissors a sly reference to One Armed Scissor?) are so heavily imprinted with these influences that it can distract from the content. Really though, this is abstract painting in mood and tone and the lyrical concerns take a scattergun approach, building word pictures through fragments and layering. The style dictates schizophrenic overlapping of parts to offset blipvert attention spans and the robust playing and textural nuance are a strength of the collection. Recorded by the guitar section in Hamilton and mastered at Kog, there is solid, consistent depth of field which loses nothing in clarity when everything is piling on at once. This is an involved and expansive listen (if not overlong) but it remains to be seen if This Night Creeps will emerge with their own singular voice.

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