Hong Kong alternative-psych band DEADHEIR have released their debut album ’10th Floor’. Named in homage to garage-rock pioneers 13th Floor Elevators and Pearl Jam’s monolithic 10, the album spans flower power pop-rock to mid-90s grunge.
The album is a collection of living snapshots taken across Hong Kong. The rollicking intro track Days Go By blusters through paranoid anxiety in 3/4 time, before their playlist-popular Feel The Rain brings us back to late 60’s era optimism. The soundscapes are equally as varied, from the melancholic trip-hop of Relentlessly, to the exotica closing track Sunset Over Kowloon (making a brief detour into B-52’s new wave with Time To Go). Through the storytelling of seemingly unconnected characters, the overall message is one of rose-tinted nihilism – a happy soundtrack to the apocalypse.
Very cool to see some fellow Asian extreme musicheads who live out here in the west (United Kingdom to be precise) also continuing to actually play music instead of...
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