The white noise in the background certainly helps make Bug Facer’s “Horsefly” sound creepier with minimal guitar line and processional drumming. Like an even more haunted Slint song until a little over a minute in the distorted vocals and noisy guitar escalation crashes in. At that point the caustic desperation is palpable and what once was a fairly chill if unsettling song turns into one that sustains a seething and tortured expression of loss that crosses over into nihilistic passages that are so raw and emotionally fragmented it would be thrilling if it didn’t contain and embody so much psychic anguish. But then in the outro the song waxes back into a weary acceptance, a lull in the waves of agony you feel when you feel like you’ve been left all alone with nothing to live for, a state that seems impossible to overcome but this song seems proof that there are ways to channel that feeling into the kind of art that seems to help in spite of its horrifying power. Listen to “Horsefly” on Spotify and follow Bug Facer at the links below.
Queen City Sounds and Art 
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