Russian Baths combines an elegant, ethereal guitar riff with one more gritty and dark throughout “Bind.” It lends the track a heaviness and dreaminess to match its subject matter that seems to be about the weight of family legacy and freeing oneself of its worst aspects cast in mythical terms with words about getting lost in darkness and trying to drown painful feelings and memories but never quite being able to escape them. The spooky motes of tone and dissonant drones that haunt the song highlight its more driving moments. It’s a song of great contrasts and tensions that build until the end when it dissolves and breaks down into the sound of wind. One imagines the influence of Bauhaus here or the more post-punk shadows in mid-80s Sonic Youth, no pun intended, but Russian Baths also manage to embody modern post-punk without succumbing to the stylistic trends of thin sonics that have made too much modern darkwave a bit cookie cutter. Listen to “Bind” on Spotify and follow Russian Baths at the links below. The band will have an album release show for its new record Mirror (to be available on streaming, digital download and as a vinyl LP) on the night of its album release day, June 14, at Main Drag Music in Brooklyn, New York, doors 8pm, $10.
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