I Lesser Glow vengono da Boston e si propongono come una ventata di aria fresca nel panorama della heavy music ipertecnica, iperprodotta e uguale a sé stessa. Ciò si manifesta nel debut album Ruined, in cui si incontrano doom, noise, post-rock, metal melodico, hardcore e post-hardcore. “Ero immerso nella grande sbronza collettiva dei ’90,ascoltando un sacco di roba come Unsane e Failure, e sentendo che quell’energia e quel songwriting grezzo e palpabile stava scivolando via dai dischi moderni”, commenta il compositore e polistrumentista Andrew Nault, che è non solo il chitarrista dei Lesser Glow, ma anche batterista session per la band electro post-hip-hop Arms And Sleepers. “Ero stanco delle band strozzate dal loro stesso genere, e mi mancava ascoltare canzoni anziché parate di riff.”
Oggi i Lesser Glow pubblicano, in anteprima per Grind On The Road, il video live in studio del brano “Under the Polar Shade”, estratto da Ruined, in uscita l’8 giugno per Pelagic Records.
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In today’s world, there is an undeniable, ever-growing sea of noise. Like an ocean, it swirls together the sounds of humanity into a churning vat of anonymity, and we are drowning.
It is from this abyss that Lesser Glow was born. A necessary change from the common kind, this Boston five-piece brings an undeniable heaviness, with lyrics and music coexisting in the same beautiful, dynamic and volatile space. Heavy but not excessive. Massive yet not gratuitous. Meticulous. Focused. Direct. Necessary. The idea of Lesser Glow grew as a response to the unrealistic progression of heavy music in recent years… generally feeling over-technical, over-produced and sometimes entirely fake.
“I was caught in a major 90s binge, listening to a bunch of stuff like Unsane and Failure, and feeling like that raw, palpable energy and songwriting was slipping away from modern heavy records”, comments main songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Andrew Nault, who is not only the guitarist in Lesser Glow, but also session drummer for electro-post-hiphop outfit Arms And Sleepers. “I was tired of genre-choked bands, and missed hearing songs instead of riff parades.”
Today Grind On The Road features the premiere of “Under the Polar Shade” live in studio video. The track is taken from the upcoming debut album Ruined, due to be released on June 8th by Pelagic Records.
