VAZUM - The Precious One
But how much are musical couples to be adored, swaggering, intolerant of sterile communion and intent on looking at each other and digging into each other to put darkness in the dark? Let it be darkness then, of the revised and sick, cobalt-filled and wrenching guitars, because dead Christian Death (tell me, without Rozz Williams, was that a band??) and waiting for Altar de Fey, here we must have music that scratches the veins properly.
The Ep of which the scribe speaks is the overflowing circus of Horror Rock that tries to handcuff Deathrock: failing, both musical genres have won, as the three songs are a working, devilish hybrid.
Here, the sickness of life finds a revolver to shoot itself in the ankles: perhaps it is enough not to walk to find relief, and the two voices, especially Emily Sturm's, the few times she appears, manage to make one believe that laments can be pleasant. For his part, the band's real vocalist, Zach Pliska, is a black diamond from Detroit, devoted to giving intensity to the interpretations, overloading, rightly so, the nervous avalanche of sublimely cut guitars.
To be had: nothing to add.
Alex Dematteis
Musicshockworld
Salford
17th February 2023
https://vazum.bandcamp.com/album/the-precious-ones
