Label: PNKSLM Recordings
Released: 2nd April 2021
Rating: ★★★
Swedish-Russian duo GHLOW (formed of Emille de Blanche and Nikolay Evdokimov) have birthed a dark and sticky bundle of noise with their debut record ‘Slash and Burn’.
Both members are multidisciplinary creatives, a notion reflected sonically through a busy multiplex of beats, staticity and fuzz. Hollow vocals utter chants through gurgling flickers of nu-metal (‘Mess With Me’), haphazard post-punk (‘Hollow’), and ambient drones (‘Holding On’).
Locked together by an industrial soundscape at its core, ‘Slash and Burn’ is all doom and raw to the bone, albeit a plateauing first act.
