Hollowmoon are an alternative rock band from Brighton, whose crestfallen vocals and jangly, taunt riffs create a brooding and melodramatic soundscape. With Jake Fern on vocals/guitar, Joe Burns on guitar, Bren Huston on bass and Stephen Rochford on drums, Hollowmoon are a visceral and abstract band whose melancholic lyrics furore through Fern’s polarised vocal delivery. With stints of brooding intensity and then inflamed emotion, Hollowmoon evoke feelings of dark sorrow to wild abandonment, creating a frenzied and delirious barrage of sounds. Having released their debut EP “’Lovers Don’t Mind”, Hollowmoon have been working on new material and their latest single “While They were Sleeping” has been selected as my single of the week. A double sided single,“While They were Sleeping” is accompanied with the song “Covered in Dust” which can be purchased from Bandcamp and is released on 13th July 2015.
With its vocal-free intro, “While They were Sleeping” drifts you along a shore, soaking in the tumultuous tides of emotions. Through the thumping bass and jangly riffs fluctuate with reserved force. It’s a powerful song, whose translucent tones soar like sirens, floating around a shipwreck on a rocky coast. Think Radiohead swimming under sea, quietly drowning, crashing with waves of despair, then whose gritty guitars resuscitate with sheer determination, then you kind of get the idea what “While They Were Sleeping” is about. It’s an emotional catharsis, whose industrial percussions reverberate like pebbles being dropped in the ocean. Through the aching vocals, “While They Were Sleeping” reveals its vulnerability, that rests in between the mutating intervals of guitar grandiose and farfisa mist.
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