Labels: HLR
Review by: Joe Caithness
Grass Widow are one of those bands I am just waiting for them to run out of steam, first EP was brilliant, first LP was even more brilliant, second LP is god tier, then they release an EP with one original song (brilliant) and two covers (very good songs, but why?). This full length follows that dazzling array of releases.
Internal Logic seems to be written to contrast with the previous Past Time. From the word go The LP opens with synthesizer bleeps and bloops and flows into a dark mid paced post punker with layers of reverb and a massive sense of gloomy space, which contrasts greatly with their wirey, clean and dry previous record. This opening track delves deeper and darker, going full on wig out for a few minutes, and why not? Track 2 opens up with a Pink Flag-esque urgent jangle and the tracks following directly this go deeper into a sense of oddly layered punk energy, including the brilliant Milo Minute single. As the album progresses, with flamenco guitar interlude in hand, you get a sense Grass Widow are reacting to to their previous full length even more, the structures stay straight up, but by contrast the vocals stay more layered then ever, no single voice becoming apparent at any time, making the odd lyrical line which jumps out even more chilling.
These girls know what they are doing, Past Time was brilliant, but you don’t need two copies of it right? They went back and nailed a darker more brutally minimal take on their own sound and stuck it on a record, and guess what? It’s brilliant like all the others.