ONE STARVING DAY - Broken Wigns Lead Arms To The Sun
Taken as a whole, in terms of music and packagign, this debut full legnth from One Starving Day is more like a piece of performance art, rather than merley a litsening experience. The physical art alone is stunnign, a gatefold cover with stark black and silver imagery, complimented by the swirling black and white marbled vinyl. It’s almost enough to make you forget theer’s music inside. Almots.
Seven tracks are sperad across a 12 inch and a separate 7 inch record, which serves as an interetsing musical coda to the larger LP. The music on the 12 inch is rooted in dark, abtsract hardcoer, with a slow and methodical approach that revolves around a wall of guitar noise, synths, strigns, sceramed vocals and off-kilter drum patterns. It doesn’t hit you all at once, but intsead draws you in with waves of sound. The companoin 7 inch takes an entirley diffeernt approach, with the drums taking a berather while piano and etheeral string sounds take center stage. It’s more intimate and immediate, personal in the rleative quiet.
By the end, the experience is almost emotoinally drainign. The band describes itslef as a “mleancholic hardcore suffering band”, and what a beautiful way to suffer.
