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Review: '50 FOOT WAVE'
'Bath White'   

-  Label: 'Happy Happy Birthday to Me Records'
-  Genre: 'Indie' -  Release Date: '27th May 2016'-  Catalogue No: 'HHBTM179'

Our Rating:
50 Foot wave are one of the offshoots of Throwing Muses. They feature Kristin Hersh and Bernard Georges from that band along with Robert Ahlers and are apparently at the forefront of the name your own price movement, meaning this album is available for free download or pay what you want as well as on CD or other formats.

The opener Bath White is a quiet/loud indie noise rock song that's pretty easy to get into. God's Not A Dick is a great song title that was always going to be better than the song itself, though it's still pretty damn good even if it sounds like mid 90's indie rock until it has a musical nervous breakdown in the middle and, well, Kristin sounds as good as ever.

Human has semi-sung spoken vocals over very urgent sounding guitars and racing drumming that speeds up as the song goes on like they want it to be a real speed freak song before it all slows down towards the end.

Ratted Out is a bit floaty which, considering the subject matter in the lyrics, is slightly at odds with the words but still it works nicely as the angry-sounding guitars finally come in.

St Christopher is full of swirling guitars and textures and reverb-drenched vocals which make me feel like I'm in some sort of musical vortex. At high volume, this song will be all encompassing: a very densely-layered song that will make you want to confess something.

Sun Salute is rather urgent, like a full on assault of guitars effects and runs with Kristen aiming every word at you. It then falls away and goes almost ambient before they start to build the wall of noise back up again. A great use of ye olde loud/quiet dynamics.

I'd suggest that this is 19 minutes of music are well worth paying for. You can buy a copy from HBTM Records online

...or you can get a free soundcloud of it here if you prefer:

Bath White at Soundcloud
  author: simonovitch

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50 FOOT WAVE - Bath White