goral dreens - pink stain
Released: July 30 Pink Stain , the latest short album from goral dreens, is ostensibly a lurid experiment to see what happens when shoegaze meets harsh noise. And to that end, it explores this combination quite well. But it comes out to be a bit more than that, especially in some of the later tracks. But to open up, we start with “Home song,” a noisy track that features a lot of cymbal work. This stands out to me a bit as I have found it rare that a harsh noise album of sorts makes such extensive use of the accents of a drum kit. They come through roughly too, giving the vibe that they just had to squeeze themselves through a trash compactor and in-sink garbage disposal just to make it to the listener’s ears while indiscernible static carries on in the background. As we come to the second track, this is where some of that shoegaze influence really starts to creep in. In “thekidnhiscorpse” we hear the first bits of identifiable guitar, wailing errantly in the background under a lay...
