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Tiny Kingdom, 2022
9/10
The debut album from a Vancouver trio who have a penchant for noisy versions of alt-rock that are full of feminist anthems, Little Destroyer are as intimidating as they are memorable across these 8 fierce tunes.
“godcomplex” opens the listen with some ethereal ambience, before bursting into a beat driven display of dance-punk that’s equally inviting and jagged, and “sucker4u” continues this iconoclastic approach with plenty of dense fuzz amid the slight industrial feel.
“Only Way Out” lands at the halfway point, and moves swiftly with firm drumming and some pop nods buried alongside the thick bass lines, while “timezone” is quite calm, intimate even, and benefits from graceful keys in the vocally powerful album highlight.
Residing near the end, “xbar” possesses an atypical rhythm and a bit of an ominous quality that’s guided by a thick beat, and “it’s been awhile” exits the listen with an initially bare climate that bursts into a fury of grungey punk.
Front woman Allie Sheldan’s armed with an impressive set of pipes, and the brothers Chris and Michael Weiss are multi-instrumentalists who fuel the listen with bright synth, dense guitars and heavy drums, where influences from Sonic Youth, Portishead, Prodigy and Garbage won’t be hard to spot or enjoy.
Travels well with: Thirsty Eyes- A Certain Regard; Babel- Yoga Horror