The self-titled album from Seattle-based trio Fluung delivers an immersive rock sound, steeped in fuzzy nostalgia that recollects the likes of Constructed to Spill and Dinosaur Jr. All through, the band showcases spectacular structural versatility, balancing expansive, slow-burning passages with bursts of distortion-laden depth. Because the band explains: “We wished to put in writing a file that encapsulates getting older as musicians, the infinite trudge of the songwriting course of, and all of the little interactions in between that make a chunk of music what it’s.”
Opening the album, “Tuning” showcases the band’s gripping tonal versatility in instrumental type — evolving seamlessly from sporadic doses of distortion and free-flowing percussive pit-pattering, right into a thunderous rock arsenal with a perpetual sense of hovering. The finale — an prolonged model of the monitor — can also be implausible. “Puzzle Items” touts a extra rapid melodic prowess, weaving pulsing alt-rock guitar nostalgia because the vocals beckon for renewal within the type of rain washing all of it away. Shades of Pavement and Dinosaur Jr. present fondly within the assured vocal drive and bursting rises in guitar-forward depth.
Additionally impressing in its evolution is “The Whistleblower,” the place introspective vocal questioning melds with twanging guitar spurts within the climactic arrival to an impassioned second half, that includes whirring guitar tones and emotions of catharsis. Amongst the album’s heavier efforts, “Creeper” infuses a shout-y vocal precision alongside a gentle onslaught of guitar distortion. Fluung boasts a large number of fervent rock successes.
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“Puzzle Piece” and different tracks featured this month might be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Rising Singles’ Spotify playlist.
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