i just want to add an update to this.

so, i was a little bit dismissive of it. i called it an unoriginal mashup, led by a tone deaf singer, that sounded like it would rather be writing pop songs than making noise. that's pretty harsh.

i don't exactly want to change my analysis, but i do want to add that the potential i initially heard hasn't really been lost. i guess what i was trying to get across was that the record - their second this year - still kind of sounds like a haphazard demo, rather than something finished. you don't expect to be blown away by a good demo, you just want to hear that it has reach, that it's leaning somewhere. after a few more listens, that's ultimately where i'm at with this.

i'm sure the show was fun enough, it just didn't make sense for me to get there last night.

moving forwards, i need to strongly suggest to the band that they need to do something about the singer. you don't want to use autotune in this style. maybe a vocal coach might be useful, though?

the noisy guitars are good. keep with that; maybe try to orchestrate it a little more by building up some more complex harmonies, but don't lose the idea.

however, the tendency to take ideas directly from other acts - and it's not just floyd and sonic youth - is something you need to do with more subtlety than this. every great riff is stolen, sure, but you want to be a sneaky shoplifter, when you do it; this record crashes through the front window of the store in a minivan, chases the staff off with kalashnikovs, orders shoppers to fill the van up and tries to run a police barricade in broad daylight. so, i have to bring in the national guard. busted. hard.

i'd still like to hear new material from them, but they're not done yet - put them back in.

https://paint-thinner.com/album/hagioscope-to-the-heart