Nighdrator opens “Scarlet Tendons” with the sound of water flowing and a mysterious keen in the distance before a distorted drone introduces clashing riffs and hanging rhythms that open a space for the vulnerable and introspective lyrics to follow. The music provides the sonic framework for an epic exploration of the nature of a kind of love that can engulf both people involved and the sensitivity and strength it takes to even try to make a connection that is so potentially deep work rather than getting lost in it. The metaphors of a love like the sea and the visceral image of scarlet tendons per the title and how tendons connect bones and thus a symbol for the core of your being and the motivating fibers that hold it all together. The heavy shoegaze sounds is a bit like the collaboration between Midwife and SubRosa that never happened but Nighdrator proves across its new four-song, self-titled EP that it’s primal, darkly psychedelic atmospherics stretch well beyond narrow genre definitions. Listen to “Scarlet Tendons” on YouTube and follow Nightdrator from Hattiesburg, Mississippi at the links below.
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