Cherry Spit: Demo Review

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Cherry Spit: Demo (5 Track EP on Bandcamp & Spotify)

The songs here don't hide anything from you, nothing's concealed or held back -- it's just that nothing is revealed. Everything that's gone into the making of these tracks has dropped below the event horizon and what we hear is the static from an energy being torn apart on its way into the heart of a black hole.

This is, of course, physically impossible - everything is at once empty but every sound, every moment, every move, has a specific gravity -- like walking in the eye of the Red Storm on Jupiter.

The sound is thick, dense, grinding - oppressive in a way that makes you start to struggle for a breath. An unknowable, unreachable turmoil of guitars, drums and bass with sharp streaks of synth like lightning flickering closer and closer.

The voice is far down in the mix, almost a shadow of a voice, a buried signal arriving with an uncertain message hinting at loss, threat, sorrow and defiance.

The sound hasn't been pulled out of the atmosphere without precedent: echoes and shadows of Lydia Lunch, Sonic Youth, Ut, Kim Gordon's Body/Head, Mars and DNA are fitful, unstable elements decomposing erratically throughout.

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Cherry Spit is:
cyrena - vocals/bass
ricardo - guitar
jackson - guitar
wayde - drums

Cherry Spit Bandcamp
 

Cherry Spit Spotify

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