One listen.

Here at the end I want to be writing more about Australian music. Can’t explain why and I want to be clear that there’s quite a few bits of writing to come that aren’t about Australian music. Just want to be writing more about it at the moment. I think that it’s partly due to it being home in a way, and there’s a lot of Australian music that I think is also good driving music.

Anyway, I write what I wrote below, and it kind of works, kind of doesn’t. I was feeling my way through as is the way, but  think that really comes across here.

Horsehead’s “Burn” is from Horsehead.

I hope you enjoy.

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Dry guitar, biting, abrasive in a sense. It rises slowly, steadily in loops. Other instruments soon join and keep rising, rising, striking, steady, slow, engulfing, rising some more, howling almost before crashing in sound and locking down to something a bit more menacing and pushing. Dangerous.

The vocals move through it all, in a dark space, menacing, tense, looking to release, and they do with the sounds soon, but only a little, letting out some energy.

The sounds continue as do the vocals, and now there’s more melody. More grandeur, in a sense. All low, but dramatic in a way. Still dry, bristly, abrasive, and soon everything rises again. Rises and calls out.

Another point found to hold on for a moment, before swinging back to the familiar, then lowering and expanding once more. One guitar comes out, starts noodling away, but only briefly, and soon it’s just the bass and drums locking in, pushing, lurking, menacing. Guitar then rages, looks to light something, to start something, to bring back a certain loudness to it all.

Dramatic starts and stops, emphasising, punctuation, calling out, calling across, stirring and welling up, lowering, a hopelessness, a hopefulness, calling out, and the vocals return in full for the climax. Still dry. Still abrasive and bristly, and climactic, raging, buzzing, drawing everything in, consuming it all. Steady, slow, and yet rapid somehow. Comforting too, somehow. Comforting, reassuring, confident, strident, all wide open, all linear, striking out in the final moments before settling on a final note at the song’s end.