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P R E S E N T S .···. ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ ██████▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██████ █████▀ GHLOW - Slash and Burn ▀█████ ████▀ ▀████ ███▀ ▀███ █▓▓▓▓ ARTiST..[ GHLOW ▓▓▓▓█ █▓▓▓▓ TiTLE...[ Slash and Burn ▓▓▓▓█ ████ GENRE...[ Rock CAT#....[ PNKSLM087 ████ ████ LABEL...[ PNKSLM Recordings ENCODER.[ Lame 3.99.5 ████ ████ YEAR....[ 2021 QUALiTY.[ 320kbps ████ ████ SOURCE..[ WEB MODE....[ Joint Stereo ████ ████ PLAYTIME[ 33:53 REL.DATE[ 04.01.2021 ████ ████ TRACKS..[ 08 RiPPER..[ TEAM OMA ████ ████ SiZE....[ 77,66 MB SUPPLiER[ TEAM OMA ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ▄▀▀███▓▄ ▄▓███▀▀▄ ████ ████ ■ ███▓█ .···. T R A C K L i S T .···. █▓███ ■ ████ ████ · ▄▓███▓ ▓███▓▄ · ████ █████ ▄▄▓█▀▀▀│ ▓ ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ ██████▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██████ █████▀ ▀█████ ████▀ ▀████ ███▀ NR. TRACK. TiME. ▀███ █▓▓▓▓ ∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙ ▓▓▓▓█ █▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓█ ████ 01 Not Fit For This 03:27 ████ ████ 02 Mess With Me 04:02 ████ ████ 03 Take It 04:12 ████ ████ 04 Sleep 04:33 ████ ████ 05 Slash and Burn 04:49 ████ ████ 06 Hollow 04:48 ████ ████ 07 Hold On 04:05 ████ ████ 08 Spit 03:57 ████ ████ ∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙ ████ ████ TOTAL: 33:53 ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ▄▀▀███▓▄ ▄▓███▀▀▄ ████ ████ ■ ███▓█ .···. R E L E A S E N O T E S .···. █▓███ ■ ████ ████ · ▄▓███▓ ▓███▓▄ · ████ █████ ▄▄▓█▀▀▀│ ▓ ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ ██████▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██████ █████▀ ▀█████ ████▀ ▀████ ███▀ ▀███ █▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓█ █▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓█ ████ https://ghlow.bandcamp.com/album/slash-and- ████ ████ burn-lp ████ ████ ████ ████ For Emille de Blanche and Nikolay Evdokimov, ████ ████ their first album as GHLOW represents a ████ ████ rebirth. Both are multidisciplinary creatives; ████ ████ de Blanche works primarily in sculpture, whilst ████ ████ Evdokimov is a tattoo artist. Both have ████ ████ colourful musical backgrounds stretching back ████ ████ decades; de Blanche is a former child prodigy ████ ████ violinist who took up the instrument at the age ████ ████ of two, while Evdokimov, a Russian native, ████ ████ formed his first, politically-charged bands in ████ ████ the early nineties, against the back-drop of ████ ████ the fall of the Soviet Union. One of those, ████ ████ Scang, would eventually see him playing stadi- ████ ████ ums. Neither of GHLOWÆs members, though, have ████ ████ ever been involved in anything quite like Slash ████ ████ and Burn, a thrilling clash of punk and ████ ████ electronica that fizzes with a furious energy. ████ ████ ████ ████ The band were formed in 2017, after a chance ████ ████ encounter; although familiar with each other, ████ ████ mov-ing in similar circles in StockholmÆs ████ ████ underground art world, it wasnÆt until de ████ ████ Blanche bumped into Evdokimov on her way to ████ ████ collect supplies for her latest sculptural work ████ ████ that they got talking. Their ensuing ████ ████ conversations suggested that they were each ████ ████ looking for a way to move on from their ████ ████ individual pasts as musicians, and they were ████ ████ quickly commissioned to work on a film score. ████ ████ If the results - which soundtracked Kalle ████ ████ AltinÆs short Dom - suggested a deeper bond, ████ ████ then their first EP, released months later, ████ ████ confirmed it: the four tracks on Crystal ████ ████ Memoriz combined stuttering beats with brooding ████ ████ synths to create an imposing atmosphere. ████ ████ ████ ████ ôWe came up with a lot of ideas we wanted to ████ ████ develop,ö explains de Blanche, whose previous ████ ████ bands had seen her turn her hand to everything ████ ████ from post-rock to hip hop. ôWe realised that, ████ ████ together, we could pursue them. We both wanted ████ ████ to experiment. There had always been weird, ████ ████ genre-bending stuff weÆd wanted to try out in ████ ████ previous bands, but we couldnÆt get whoever ████ ████ weÆd been working with to go with it. Now, we ████ ████ could just put all of that away and follow our ████ ████ instincts.ö The division of labour is equal ████ ████ across the board; de Blanche handles vocals, ████ ████ bass and the bandÆs art direction, with ████ ████ Evdokimov on guitar, synths, drum machines and ████ ████ production duties. ████ ████ ████ ████ They share influences too, running the gamut ████ ████ from Dead Kennedys to The Prodigy, as well as ████ ████ fel-low Swedes like revered post-hardcore ████ ████ outfit Breach and doom metallers Switchblade. ████ ████ They agree, though, that their joint outlook on ████ ████ music runs deeper than that: ôItÆs always been ████ ████ about emotion and passion, for me,ö says ████ ████ Evdokimov. ôThatÆs more important to me than ████ ████ genre. I have to understand the outlook of the ████ ████ artist; I need to be burned by it a little bit, ████ ████ almost.ö ████ ████ ████ ████ That perhaps explains why Slash and Burn is ████ ████ such a searing listen; the duo have taken ████ ████ every-thing that signified their potential on ████ ████ Crystal Memoriz and cranked things up several ████ ████ notches on every front. The pace has been upped ████ ████ significantly, with tracks like towering opener ████ ████ æNot Fit for ThisÆ and the chaotic æTake ItÆ ████ ████ both cut from the same cloth - punk thrashes ████ ████ that cut along at breakneck speed. Where ████ ████ EvdokimovÆs beats were murky on Crystal ████ ████ Memoriz, theyÆre piercingly polished this time ████ ████ around, setting up dramatic juxtapositions of ████ ████ sound when paired with scuzzy, effects-drenched ████ ████ guitar that recalls the alt-rock of the ████ ████ nineties, a decade crucially formative for both ████ ████ members. ████ ████ ████ ████ ItÆs not just that GHLOW are refusing to ████ ████ respect genre boundaries on Slash and Burn, ████ ████ itÆs that theyÆre doing so with such swagger ████ ████ and verve; see the epic title track for a case ████ ████ in point, on which de BlancheÆs commanding ████ ████ vocals drip with genuine menace. ôAfter the EP, ████ ████ we realised we wanted the album to be harder,ö ████ ████ reflects de Blanche. ôWhen we play live, itÆs a ████ ████ physical experi-ence - in the early days, we ████ ████ blew a lot of sound systems because the ████ ████ loudness was so important to us. ThereÆs an ████ ████ intensity to that - a feeling of just wanting ████ ████ to be this vehicle speeding at 110 kil-ometres ████ ████ per hour - and we think weÆve captured it.ö ████ ████ ████ ████ de BlancheÆs razor-sharp lyricism blends the ████ ████ personal and political to stirring effect, and ████ ████ Slash and Burn could be read as a cutting ████ ████ treatise on Sweden in 2020. SheÆs keen to leave ████ ████ the inter-pretation to the listener, though, ████ ████ and the pair insist that her words are only one ████ ████ part of what is a scorched-earth mission ████ ████ statement - a manifesto announcing a powerful ████ ████ new moment both for themselves and for rock ████ ████ music. ôThereÆs a rawness and a violence to ████ ████ Slash and Burn, but thatÆs not necessarily a ████ ████ bad thing,ö says Evdokimov. ôItÆs about ████ ████ starting again. You might be chopping things ████ ████ down, or setting fire to something, but thatÆs ████ ████ a reset - something positive comes out of the ████ ████ flames.ö ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ▄▀▀███▓▄ ▄▓███▀▀▄ ████ ████ ■ ███▓█ .···. G R O U P .···. █▓███ ■ ████ ████ · ▄▓███▓ ▓███▓▄ · ████ █████ ▄▄▓█▀▀▀│ ▓ MAiL: [email protected] ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ █▀ ▀██▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██▀ ▀█ ██▄██▀ ▀██▄██ ████▀ The only thing that really matters is music!!! ▀████ ▀██▓ ▓██▀ ▀██▓▄ ▄▓██▀ .▀ │ ▀▀██▄▓▄ .···. G R E E T S .···. ▄▓▄██▀▀ │ ▀ . ▄▓▓▄ │ ▀▀▀█▄▄ ▄▄█▀▀▀ │ ▄▓▓▄ . ▀▀ ▀▀▄ FRiENDS / SiTEOPS / NUKENET ▄▀▀ ▀▀ ▀ . ▄ ▄▓▓▄ ▀▄ RIP kHz ▄▀ ▄▓▓▄ ▄ . ▀ ▀ ▀▓▀ ▀▀ ▀ . ▄.···. !kb^faa 08.MARCH 2009 .···.▄ . ▀ ▀▀ ▀▓▀ ▀ .