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| 3.5 great | damon r. EMERITUS | February 17th 26 |
Gleaming Cursed, the debut LP from Vancouver-based post-hardcore retroists Water Margin, carries the torch of muscular rhythms and melodic funk sparked by the likes of Fugazi and Unwound and swaddled into the 21st century by fourth-wave math rock enthusiasts, and while Water Margin did indeed inherit a knack for noodling and a sense of numerical order to their compositions that makes moments of noise like the warped guitar interplay in songs "Bad Jazz" and "Palisades" appear like a wrist tattoo flashing out of a French cuff (and in fact the lyrics on this record do a great job of further illustrating that abstraction of humanity bottlenecked by capitalist bureaucracy), Gleaming Cursed is still very much a rock-first, calculate-later type of record - one that never sacrifices its bombastic jousts of guitar and cruising bass lines for overly flashy formulae. This is punk rock, just a bit older, wearing a sweater vest and cracking jokes about death by the water cooler as human ambition fractures the land with aridity. "Cash maze, no roof - there?s one way out."
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