“Contorta” sounds like SUNGRAVE has deconstructied and re-assembled epic, science fiction soundtracks and injected them with Neurosis-esque heaviness and psychedelia. When the vocals come in they sound despairing yet defiant in a song that seems to be about people who have neglected to their detriment ideals, a natural world that nurtured until it was abused and poisoned and each other as a community and all that’s left are the ruins of all truly meaningful values. The tone struck in the song is a mix of outrage and transcendence. The streams of sound unite a sustained rhythm, incandescent, almost screaming guitar and crushing yet fluid riffs and a raw human expression of pain and desolation that really pulls you in like a dystopian film set at a time before an apocalypse, before the collapse of civilization, at a time when people have to make serious decisions for themselves and their civilization, frankly a time like now when we’re on the brink of climate and civilizational collapse and so this song and the album from which it hails, Idyll (released December 20, 2024 and available on vinyl, digital download and on streaming), hit as very of the moment. Listen to “Contorta” on Spotify and follow Denver’s SUNGRAVE on Instagram.
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