{"id":20136,"date":"2022-10-14T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=20136"},"modified":"2022-10-13T14:41:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T14:41:28","slug":"girls-in-synthesis-the-rest-is-distraction-own-it-cargo-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=20136","title":{"rendered":"Girls In Synthesis – \u2018The Rest Is Distraction\u2019 (Own It\/Cargo Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Even darker than the debut I hear, bleak times call for bleak, cold, dark music (Sometimes) GIS delivers on the remit in spades (probably dirty spades that have been used in woods to dig shallow graves). GIS iaren’t fucking about, and take it from me this isn’t an easy listen. But, it is a rewarding spin. It is indeed more sonically intense than their debut, taking its cues from \u2018Join Hands\u2019 era Siouxsie & The Banshees, and Crass\u2019 \u2018Christ The Album\u2019 with a hefty measure of The Fall so get your head in that space and play on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fractured guitars are cold, bleak, and concrete grey, it’s intimidating, like listening to the Fall on loop for a month of Sundays but with a middle finger aloft a record recorded during tough times for tough times. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I reviewed the ‘KONSUMRAUSCH’ EP a while back and it stuck with me as a tough listen, more so than bands like Gallon Drunk at the peak of their powers but bands I love to dig in and persist with because when the penny drops they can be some of the most rewarding records and this is no exception. The lyrics are difficult as well like on the video for ‘My Husband’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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