Snowbride / Scab Queen "PM016" cassette

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" Well, well, Industrial artists that know how to play instruments (and I’m a huge fan of the cello, even though I know very little about music written for the cello, downright moved when modern bands throw it in the mix). I think my response to him was describing the music as “otherworldly”. I guess I should elaborate. I went to Scab Queen’s Bandcamp page, they have a shit ton of recordings and I did a shit ton of listening. “Otherwordly” just kind of scrapes the surface. A song popped into my head at some point doing that listening, The Creatures – Pluto Drive. It completely reminds me of that kind of other-worldliness. A lyric from the song goes, “I want to see Pluto, I want to have fun, I want to turn blue, under an alien sun”…that is Scab Queen. They are so otherworldly, they’re not even in this solar system. Their ambient styled Industrial would make the perfect soundtrack to a movie set in the most alien of worlds. It would work well as Alice’s caterpillar sits thoughtfully puffing on his opium. I’ve smoked opium and you don’t need that shit, you need Scab Queen. These guys really could get a gig doing soundtrack as so many Industrial types have. I’m not sure how they do it, even though it’s explained quite well, the execution is spot on. Ambient is a tough sell for me sometimes, I don’t like the drone ambient, it’s just too monotonous, but these guys are not drone, they’re unfolding a musical story, slowly but deliberately.

All that talk and thought about Scab Queen and it wasn’t until today that I gave Snowbride a whirl, but it was Michael of Scab Queen who I have been in touch with. I think it was someone’s really good idea to put these bands together on a tape as they are very different, so you get a little variety. Snowbride is still under the greater umbrella of Industrial, but their compositions have more rhythmic structure (2 of the 3 songs), and harken back in a remote sense, to early New Wave (maybe it’s the synth-y-ness). The vocals (there’s no lyric) are dreamy and I think their overall soundtrack would be something a little more psychological. The songs don’t unfold as much as permeate. Very enjoyable. As far as the tape as a whole, I’d say Georgia has more going on than you think. " - Mustard Relics