Photo: Kaye Song
Although it may have flown under the radar for many here at Echoes and Dust, last year’s Return was picked up and highly commended by a diversity of music platforms and featured in this writer’s top ten albums of 2022. WIth a huge post-Covid burst of creative energy, Deathcrash are already releasing their follow-up, Less which, as the title suggests, epitomises the principle of “less is more”.
We thought it was about time we found out what makes the London post-rockers tick, so we asked them to choose four albums that are important to them and explain their influence on their music.
Pretend – Circular Raesoning
Taking Back Sunday – Tell All Your Friends
I had to choose this album because it’s clearly their best. However, it doesn’t have the songs ‘Number Five with a Bullet’ and ‘…slowdance on the inside’ which top anything on that record. When I listen to Taking Back Sunday they still make me more excitable than any other band I can think of. The vocal performances are ridiculously melodramatic, and so catchy, and all the effort and strain and energy TBS puts in to each song makes me feel like a child. For some reason, they became a big reference point in our conversations when writing Less, even if that might not come across in the end product.
Low – The Curtain Hits the Cast
Primitive Man – Immersion
We saw Primitive Man play live at Electrowerkz last year and it was the heaviest thing we’d ever seen. Their performance on Audiotree put us all in awe of them, the emotions they put into their songs and the sounds they get out of their instruments. Primitive Man are the kind of band that momentarily make you want to cower and never pick up a guitar again, because nothing you do will ever match what they do. Until you realise you can copy aspects of them and hope no one notices because they aren’t that famous.
