Lightfoils: Hierarchy (Saint Marie Records, 2014)
May 2, 2014 at 10:58 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment
Lightfoils: Hierarchy
The case for this album does contain lyrics for these songs, but they mostly appear to be dots and dashes with a few words sprinkled here and there. It’s hard to even identify these lyrics when listening; this band definitely seems to take a lesson from Cocteau Twins in regards to lyric comprehensibility. The music definitely works its way up to noisy, fast wall of sound shoegaze, but sometimes it starts out relatively clean and normal sounding (as on “Last One”), and sometimes there’s even hints of country slide guitar. “Diastolic” has more of an uptempo, vaguely funky rhythm, and “Mock Sun” kicks the guitars into MBV overdrive. Track 7 is a slow, drifting drone which sounds like it was created using Paulstretch. This crashes into “alovetodestroy”, a loud uptempo shoegaze anthem with a vocal melody that totally reminds me of early ’90s college radio, hearing something that I misremembered as being by the Sugarcubes but not recognizing it when I actually listened to that band’s albums years later. The album ends with another drifting piece, with backwards vocals and slide guitar, which stops suddenly, bringing the album to a sudden death.
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