Since their 2017 debut Dixieland<\/i>, Flint, Michigan\u2019s Greet Death have been embracing death with the same fondness as most pop music has been doing with love. There is an introspective timidness in Greet Death\u2019s music that makes it really heartfelt, no matter how dark and gory the lyrics get, which makes their delivery of doom quite unique.<\/p>\n
Although the group\u2019s first two records are beloved by fans, the third release, Die In Love<\/i>, is undoubtedly their best\u2026 by a mile. Whether in terms of the music, lyrics, production, or the vocal performance (especially), the band has grown and matured profoundly. <\/p>\n
The album is stylistically divided into two unmistakably distinct parts \u2013 both equally powerful and poignant \u2013 one led by Logan Gaval and the other by Harper Boyhtari.<\/p>\n
Gaval\u2019s songs are raw, both in terms of their lyrics and how they are performed. His weary vocals are a perfect fit for his dry and gritty shoegaze tracks \u2013 \u201cDie In Love,\u201d \u201cSame But Different Now,\u201d \u201cRed Rocket,\u201d \u201cAugust Underground,\u201d and \u201cMotherfucker\u201d \u2013 that flirt with ethereal rock and metal in a beautifully unsettling way. His lyrics are blunt \u2013 \u201cLay me down to rest, I\u2019m clawing \/ Everytime I hear you calling \/ Break open my chest, I\u2019m falling \/ Side by side into the coffin\u201d (\u201cRed Rocket\u201d) \u2013 where melancholia meets macabre and sounds more heartfelt than grisly. This is because Gaval’s voice \u2013 which are way more mature than they\u2019ve ever been \u2013 have a genuine niceness to them.<\/p>\n
Boyhtari\u2019s songs are downright sweet. She processes all things morbid with sensitivity and soulfulness. Her songs \u2013 \u201cCountry Girl,\u201d \u201cEmptiness Is Everywhere,\u201d and \u201cLove Me When You Leave\u201d \u2013 are heartfelt alt-country numbers loaded with melody.<\/p>\n
Far from the stormy doom-shoegaze of Gaval\u2019s tracks, the Boyhtari cuts are gentle and simple. Apart from the melody, her songs will break your heart because of her lyrics and how she sings them: \u201cEveryone gets nervous when the lights get low for the ones you know. And the end comes slow. Emptiness is everywhere, so hold each other close\u201d (\u201cEmptiness Is Everywhere\u201d). \u201cOnce you\u2019re gone you\u2019re never coming back. We\u2019re all dreamers chasing shadows \u2018round the track. So if you go, then will you leave a sign for me? If it\u2019s you first will you love me when you leave?\u201d (\u201cLove Me When You Leave\u201d). \u201cI got off work and went to see a movie starring Kurt Russell at the Logan, Halloween. And John Carpenter\u2019s The Fog with Jamie. Jamie Lee Curtis and the Nightmare on Elm Street\u201d (\u201cCountry Girl\u201d). <\/p>\n
Boyhtari expresses her gloomy feelings as a storyteller, coloring her rather gray narrative with details, whether it is imparting deep sage advice or just depicting the triviality of everyday being. Moreover, her lyrics are pure poetry gold that you could read over and over as you weep over their beauty. Her genial and calming vocals have a sense of pureness that is very touching. The gravity in her voice makes her words sound as if they are coming from someplace genuine, like the lived experience of someone very wise. <\/p>\n
An album about death by a band whose work is exclusively centered around just this concept, can be reductive or tiring, if not plain juvenile. But Greet Death have taken on the one topic that is so close to their hearts with such thoughtfulness and creativity that this album about death, as it turns out, is wonderfully multi-dimensional and full of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":35361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[11122],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-47255","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-greet-death","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/47255","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/47255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=47255"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=47255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}