Though they’ve only been a band since early 2019, Atlanta’s Holy Beach aren’t wasting anytime making a big impression with this debut album. On this disc, three guitars are in attendance as the six-piece band unleashes a visceral and meticulous display of post-rock and experimental ideas.<\/p>\n
\u201cShips Off The Coast\u201d gets the album off to a chunky, turbulent delivery of post-hardcore and metallic sounds, where clean singing helps illuminate the rugged melody. \u201cFade Aways\u201d follows with a pro rock type of ambience that stays mysterious and spacey for the entire vocal-less two minutes.<\/p>\n
Further along, \u201cIt’s The Fear\u201d rumbles with a post-punk type of buzzing, where darker textures are met with tuneful reverb that’s, dare I say, almost dance friendly-ish coming from the rhythm section. Meanwhile, \u201cConfident Prick\u201d dives head first into sludgy, hard rock sounds that are ominous and hypnotic in all the best ways.<\/p>\n
The second half of the record is gold, too, with the thick, haunting \u201cIncest In The Herd\u201d and the restrained yet abrasive \u201cThe New Colossus.\u201d At the end, \u201cInternational Graves\u201d presents an interesting dynamic with a doom and gloom quality amid a hazy display of almost shoegaze, and \u201cSkull Faced Horse\u201d ends the listen with a blast of rhythmic and bristling post-punk that reminds us of Dischord Records on steroids.<\/p>\n
This is a monster of a listen that’s full of thundering, swirling, and gigantic sounds; it’s no surprise that frontman John Lally has a full time gig spearheading the shoegaze outfit Sleep Therapy. I suspect that the rest of the band have strong backgrounds as well, considering the skilled musicianship present and strong songwriting prowess. <\/p>\n
Whether you’re a fan of punk, grunge, alt-rock, metal, or even goth rock, All That Matters Is This Matter <\/i>deserves a spot in your collection, and expect to revisit it frequently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":33909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[10433],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-45736","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-holy-beach","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45736"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}