onewaymirror
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Welcome to another New Music Monday. This week we’re incredibly excited to premiere the latest track from California young guns onewaymirror. “As I Lay Dying” will be featured on their forthcoming split with Burial Etiquette “a tale of two cities” and we are incredibly hyped for the full split to drop. Hailing from Los Angeles, the band made their debut on the scene with their one song demo “Retrospect”, followed by their debut EP “but once the snow hits the ground, it hushes as still as my heart”. Their live shows are now frequently packed, often discussed and ahead of what's sure to be a killer tour with Catalyst out on the east coast, the band has already carved themselves a special spot in southern California's burgeoning scene.
Wildly sassy and intense, the track blisters to life with multiple vocal layers writhing around and in between one another, as richly distorted riffs raucously tumble against lumbering tonal bass. Drum beats wide and spacious trade tempos from surging breakdowns to a death march gallop as every sound happening gives space to its counterpart until everything blends all together for the latter half of the track, exploding and careening into silence.
Aside from it obviously about to be a white belt summer, onewaymirror are undoubtedly going to be doing big things for the genre, their sound is one beautifully swirled mix of screamo, sass and hardcore and pair that with their youthful exuberance and intense live presence and they for sure are a band to watch in the coming years. Give “As I Lay Dying” a listen below and make sure to stream the full split, “a tale of two cities” when it drops June 30th and make sure to grab a tape via Jean Scene.
