{"id":16338,"date":"2023-09-15T16:05:45","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T15:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/?p=16338"},"modified":"2023-09-17T13:40:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T12:40:09","slug":"there-is-beauty-in-decline-golden-hours-s-t-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/there-is-beauty-in-decline-golden-hours-s-t-album\/","title":{"rendered":"There is beauty in decline…Golden Hours s\/t album"},"content":{"rendered":"

Golden Hours<\/a> are heading out for a handful of live dates later this month coinciding with the second pressing of their debut self- titled LP on Fuzz Club<\/a>, starting in the UK before heading for the EU. First album release it may be but this is no inexperienced band of musicians finding their feet; I won\u2019t go into too much detail as it is all documented elsewhere but a shared history that includes The Third Sound, Gang Of Four, Tricky and Brian Jonestown Massacre (those are just the ones I\u2019m most familiar with, there are many many more!) gives you the idea.<\/p>\n

Notions that it might sound like any of those bands are instantly destroyed by \u2018Come and Find Me\u2019 \u2013 a pounding hard hitting track, led by a delicious chunky bass and lacerating guitars, sounding like a pitch-black release of pent up tension and aggression. As a long time listener to The Third Sound the most familiar part of the record is Hakon\u2019s voice, always sonorous and slightly melancholy, but musically it is a different beast to that or Gunman & The Holy Ghost. \u00a0After listening to the record a number of times it seems to fall into a few different sections, although still all holds together as an album.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Forgotten One\u2019 sounds bewitched; a romantic late-night lament; revelation and realisation through a narcotic haze. It works perfectly alongside \u2018Japan on my mind\u2019; a gloriously melancholic and broody epic; thoughts of salvation and light rising from despair. These two tracks \u00a0feel joined in mood and feel and conjures up grainy memories of early Tindersticks….\u201cThere is beauty in decline\u201d.<\/p>\n