Pulse: New Music You Need #9

Constructor

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South Wales, it’s all closed coal mines, male voice choirs, local pubs for local men, Tom Jones, but conversely there’s also every single cretin you see overpopulating Cardiff, Swansea, and Newport on any given weekend, or any larger town for that matter, and of course the popularly representative cast of the Valleys where the men grow as orange as they do wide.

As somewhat of an outlet against all that, here are Constructor; a four piece who deal in no messing around and no holds barred hardcore inflected with the ferocity of metalcore and the occasional groove and swagger of southern metal too. That’s a nice change from Myfanwy.

Blonde Bunny

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Self-described ‘freakazoids’ or at least purveyors of said genre of ‘freakazoid’, Blonde Bunny may or may not be what you expect – though quite possibly not, when you add into the mix that their band members go by the pseudonyms Scrub, Gerry, The RZ, and Bigg Wisdom. Who sound kind of like a group of clowns who got together over a mutual penchant for Wu Tang Clan. NO! NOT YOU INSANE CLOWN POSSE YOU RIDICULOUS, RIDICULOUS ‘MEN’.

Blonde Bunny freak and zoid their way through a song by song evolution, that actually sees them evolving verse by verse too. The resulting sound is something akin to Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd, psychedelic David Bowie, Kate Bush, Wild Beasts, Everything Everything, and Mr Bungle if they resisted the urge to churn out the cacophonous noise of a carnival apocalypse. Intriguing, infectiously melodic, and interesting enough to keep your ears on the prize.

Lazyeyes

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Brooklyn based trio Lazyeyes may purport to be sporting lazy eyes, but there is nothing lazy about the music they’re making. However, ‘lazyeyes’ may well be a common feature for most of their listeners.

The three piece take the angular intricacies of bands like Interpol and the twinklier moments of early Bloc Party but wash them and soak them trough pools of reverb and fuzz, which doesn’t so much drench their sound in shoegaze but add its characteristic haze to help highlight the bands dream pop leanings, so often peaking their head above the surface.

Desert Stars

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In spite of these five Brooklyn-ites claiming to play shoegaze ballads, they do not get lost in the oversaturated sugary schmaltz that can sometimes come to pass when shoegaze aims for the sweet overtly in their music. However, Desert Stars are talking classic ballads that Phil Spector would hold walls of sound at gunpoint to.

For this reason there are layers, there’s haze, there’s swirl, and there’s blissed out noise, but there is all an undercurrent of frenetic and cacophonous clatter that gives a sense of controlled chaos to proceedings. It’s psych, it’s shoegaze, it’s melody-driven balladry, it’s a fucking ruckus.

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