Songs Of Abundance, Psalms Of Grief
LA RUBIA PRODUCCIONES
IT SHOULDN’T REALLY be too surprising that a new project featuring members of Maud The Moth and Ashenspire – two distinctive, standalone acts in their own right – is also an outlier entity, yet Healthyliving still manage to subvert expectations.
Songs Of Abundance, Psalms Of Grief occupies the liminal, frequently fascinating zone known to fans of modern rock music as “umm, postsomething?” It presents a sprawling, neither-fishnor-foul amalgam of sound that chucklingly muddles genre boundaries and invents its own strange folk knowledge. Grunge-y, Vitalogy-esque melodies hobnob with a baroque and undeniably gothic sense of drama, while the uncanny post-rock of Slint makes spidering forays to the base of your spine.
seems to channel and warp Katatonia’s transmogrifies laidback jazziness into a brief, dappled patch of Explosions In The Sky grandiosity, andfeels like Isis stripped of distortion and left with a bare, skeletal frame to protect them from the elements.
