LYPURÁ
- 'á' review
These
guys from Germany play new-school screamo that fluctuates between
blistering blast beats with noisy, textured chord-work, and clean,
bright picked sections. There's a similar contrast in vocals too,
often favouring multiple layers of screaming, but they're actually
surprisingly good clean singers too; they can harmonise really well,
sometimes reminding me of a less wild version of HUMAN HANDS or even
THURSDAY, but also surprising me in the first track by having an
almost indie-sounding chorus. A couple of tracks in the middle break
up the tone a little, with 'A Lost Harmony' bringing in some
different influences, sounding more like the post-rock of TALONS, but
with some deeper, almost doomy vocals, and 'Growing' adds a slower,
delay-driven guitar sound, with a gang-vocal dominated ending. These
are then followed by an instrumental post-rock-style track, before
breaking back into the emo / screamo sound we're used to hearing from
them. So yeah, pretty varied stuff; if you already listen to a lot of
European screamo, you'll recognise the kind of sound this has, but
expect more clean brightness than cathartic aggression. As well as
the bands already mentioned, if you like stuff like TITLE FIGHT and I
guess stuff like LOMA PRIETA then this might do it for you.
xox
