After a wildly successful Kickstarter campaign that proved just how many rock fans were keen to see the debut LP, Out of Darkness, come to fruition following a series of performances at Call of the Wild, Winter Rocks and Love Rocks Festival, She Burns Red are almost ready to unveil their monolithic magnum opus.
If you Punk n Rolled Jimmy Eat World, threw in a few Slash-esque guitar lashings, the ferocious heart-in-throat ear candy melodicism of Foo Fighters and the grungy salacity of Deftones, you still wouldn’t come close to the superlatively amalgamated triumph that ticks all the right rock boxes while evading every rock cliché.
Pairing melodic-hooked instrumentals that are richer than Musk in their era-spanning influence with sentiments that couldn’t be closer to home, the sonics scintillate through the addition of visceral emotion that is mainlined into each of the releases.
With the sticky-sweet pseudo-emo trappings juxtaposed by the juggernautical manicured immensity, it’s no surprise that Out of Darkness has rendered even the most consummate rock journos speechless. To be fair, even the most superfluous verbiage couldn’t scratch the surface of the cavernous depth of Out of Darkness.
“There is something incredibly uplifting about truth and honesty and having the means to express that, to share it with other people. We’re all drained and drowning in our own thoughts but our songs allow us to feel liberated and free to express, hold our heads above the water for a moment and remember we’re all in this together, not divided at all. This is what we hope ‘Out Of Darkness’ will do for people. Enable them to realise… they are not alone. All of these songs come from a place of looking for hope within the darkness.” – She Burns Red
Out of Darkness will be independently released on September 15th; pre-order a vinyl or CD copy here & and grab the last remaining tickets to the launch show on September 9th via Fatsoma.
Review by Amelia Vandergast
