{"id":16592,"date":"2026-01-15T21:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T21:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/?p=16592"},"modified":"2026-02-26T12:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:58:11","slug":"tearing-up-gods-living-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/tearing-up-gods-living-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Tearing up God&#8217;s living room&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An early dose of salvation delivered to us for the new year\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GoldenHourstheband\">Golden Hours<\/a> are back with \u2018Beyond Wires\u2019, following up 2023s self-titled debut\u2026and they\u2019re back with a lush evocative masterpiece, once more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FuzzClubRecords\">Fuzz Club<\/a> records. The latest offering is as dark and poetic as you\u2019d expect given the previous release and the history and previous form of the band members , but this one seems even more direct and powerful. It\u2019s one of those rare records where every track sounds like a single (so I&#8217;m not going to describe each one &#8211; you need to hear them!) and each instrument seems in the spotlight at different times.<\/p>\n<p>I confess to being a bit bass-obsessed so I&#8217;m always listening out for it but it would be miraculous if a sweeter, more satisfying bass sound makes it to vinyl all year \u2013 often a fat, threatening low-end rumble and at others nimbly lurking and snaking around the drums &#8211; the way the two interact is a big feature of the album. The twin guitars blaze and fuzz in epic style making the whole thing sound beautiful and grand and noisy&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Golden Hours - Heading For The Moon (Visualiser)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pyPnCFwzkiw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The vocals are taken in turns and shared equally between Hakon (guitar) and Wim (bass); both have deep rich baritones that work perfectly with the widescreen cinematic lyrics; shadowy tales and distressed anthems &#8211; ragged and velvety in turns, portraying a twilit world of love, loss and the strange drama of existence lit up by flashes of hope and light, a strung out modern blues, hymns of fuzz and reverb. The whole set manifests a resigned or questioning melancholy but at times a venomous menacing undercurrent takes over and there is plenty of rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll thrust and swagger.<\/p>\n<p>No single genre tag fits for this record as there is a pure and timeless feel to it, and although there\u2019s certainly an early 80s post punk feel and sound &#8211; dark, driving and enigmatic &#8211; there are other, less straightforward elements lurking, little unexpected cracks and bursts of sound and atmosphere that seem to crawl out from the storm and set this apart from anything obvious and predictable. It will be no surprise to more gothic leaning listeners that this rich brooding soundscape, which to non-believers might appear too desolate, can be an uplifting and life affirming experience, and that\u2019s certainly how this feels to me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Cover3000x3000-A.jpeg\" rel=\"lightbox[16592]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16594\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Cover3000x3000-A-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-wp-pid=\"16594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Cover3000x3000-A-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Cover3000x3000-A-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Cover3000x3000-A-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Cover3000x3000-A-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Cover3000x3000-A-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Cover3000x3000-A-2048x2048.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Cover3000x3000-A-600x600.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Cover3000x3000-A-100x100.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Cover3000x3000-A-1200x1200.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Golden Hours set at Fuzz Club Eindhoven a few years ago was one of the highlights of the weekend for me and they&#8217;ve just announced that they&#8217;re back in 26!&nbsp; While we wait for that I highly recommend finding yourself a copy of \u2018Beyond Wires\u2019 \u2013 it\u2019s a truly heroic album.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Powell, January 2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An early dose of salvation delivered to us for the new year\u2026Golden Hours are back with \u2018Beyond Wires\u2019, following up 2023s self-titled debut\u2026and they\u2019re back with a lush evocative masterpiece, once more on Fuzz Club records. The latest offering is as dark and poetic as you\u2019d expect given the previous release and the history and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":16593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1438,754,71,92],"tags":[1561,1559,1560,1557,1558,1556,1520,1513,1515,1439,1436,1428,340,432],"series":[],"class_list":["post-16592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bands","category-dark","category-music","category-post-punk","tag-gang-of-four","tag-the-third-sound","tag-tricky","tag-golden-hours","tag-brian-jonestown-massacre","tag-lp-review","tag-album","tag-album-review","tag-psych","tag-dark","tag-post-punk","tag-fuzz-club","tag-fuzztones","tag-gary-powell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16592"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16629,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16592\/revisions\/16629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16592"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=16592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}