Song You Need: Vulnerability is the real horror in this instant hardcore classic
12.05.2022 - 22:05
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Wendy Eisenberg adds depth to everything they touch. Whether it's the refreshingly abrasive edge they bring to their folk-adjacent, jazz-based solo songs or the dissonant earth tones they add to their free improvisation with legendary experimenters such as John Zorn, they have a knack for making fresh tracks in well-trodden soil.
Editrix, their hard-rocking trio with Steve Cameron of the powerviolence outfit Tortured Skull and Josh Daniel of the jittery post-punk group Landowner, announced themselves in 2019 with a four-track tape titled Talk To Me and followed it up last year with their first full-length, Tell Me I'm Bad. Last month, they dropped the imperatives to announce their sophomore LP, Editrix II: Editrix Goes To Hell, and share its lead single, "One Truck Gone." And today, they're premiering a second offering called "Hieroglyphics" with The FADER as they prepare for the record's June 3 release via Exploding In Sound.
The new song finds Eisenberg reimagining heavy music's often over-salted emotional flavor profile with the palate-cleansing secret sauce of vulnerability. But anyone so blind as to mistake this honesty for weakness will curdle at the sound of their bone-chilling whisper, backed by Daniel's thrashing kit work, Cameron's filthy picking, and her own nu-metal-inspired guitar line.
"I hate this part / It leaves me so exposed / Don't talk abut that / Don't talk about how it made you grow," Eisenberg mouths at the start of the track. Later, they harmonize behind their breathy vocal line, creating a demonic chorus as the instrumental runs wild beneath them.
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