Release
date: December 06th
2015. Label: Self Released. Format: DD
SPINE
– Tracklisting
1.SPINE
37:39
Band
Members:
Adam
Mundorf and Eliese Dorsay.
Review:
I
love being in a band. I really do. You get to do all sorts of amazing
shit, and get to meet all sorts of amazing people. And then of course
there's the music. I've been fortunate enough to stumble across bands
I didn't really know about before, who go onto to become the bands I
love.
Sometimes
you "discover" these bands at shows you're playing, and
sometimes at shows that friends are playing and sometimes (this time)
they email a link to their band to your band.....
We'd
played a show the night before. I'd had too many beers and not enough
sleep and was getting ready to drag myself into work, when my phone
went off to tell me the band page had a notification. It was a
message from Eliese from Urchin saying she liked our new track and
feel free to check out their new release. It's 37 minutes long. One
track. 37 minutes..... (Longer than our entire album)
Despite
my headache I clicked play on the link and thank fuck I did, because
what came next is one of the best 37 minutes of new music I've heard
in a very long time.
Urchin
are a new two piece band who hail from Portland, Oregon USA and play
what they describe as "sea sludge". Apparently they've yet
to play their first show. What they've just released makes a mockery
of their newcomer status as it's a bold, mature, expressive and
downright heavy release.
It
ebbs and flows like the sea and the creatures beneath it that the
band are writing about, and for a piece of music that has that kind
of duration never really outstays it's welcome. As the dynamics and
tempo shift as the song progresses, quiet becomes loud, slow becomes
fast and everything in between. It for me perfectly conjures up
images of the sea and the power it holds and will literally pull you
under and submerge you with it's sheer weight.
An
essential release and one that without a doubt would have made my end
of year list had I not already submitted it.
I
believe the band are currently working on a physical release but
until then you can download it from here
https://thebandurchin.bandcamp.com/releases.
Check
out the bands Facebook page here
https://www.facebook.com/abandnamedurchin/?fref=ts
Words
by Simon Ross Williams
