The thrashing, nebulous aesthetic of Strangelight is a call to arms- And some can remember the Refused (The Shape of Punk to Come) and think of a certain regale and timber still brimming heavy and bright in the past times of our living.
We may think of subversion as a result of a sound that is a moving disorder and yet the album so curiously admonishes, “The World Needs Laughter.” There’s a heaviness in the coarse textures of Strangelight and we are accompanied by short sequences of pummeling, almost frothy tangents of songs that bring us closer to destruction and a state of a pursuit of something quite ephemeral.
The catchy, turn of the dial doesn’t let up a notch, it hammers on and we allow the testimony at full throttle to have us: to engage in the conversation of dust as darting eyes settled so spuriously clear like the tinted lens of a mirror we meet almost striking the image with our faces as if we were half-human. Strangelight is a world of post punk modernist noise.
They delve in the hunger of their punk rock anthems and they freely bebop from their constraints. The rise and fall of each song is a two-three minute odyssey. We travel through the milieu of guitar thrash and drum pulp it leaves us hungering for a full length album. Strangelight’s “The World Needs Laughter” may perhaps take from past emanations (Black Flag) and (The Circle Jerks).
There is a majesty in the youthfulness of Strangelight, it fraternizes with the enamel of the most illustrious of punks history and still manages to remain original and retain a semblance of consciousness that is unlike what many would anticipate. “The World Needs Laughter” has a timeless experience being that it’s cadence and appeal can and could in all probability leap frog across many generations- They’re both articulate and youthful (they thrash) which is what we all look for in a band when curating a mix for friends and maybe family.
Written by Hari Palacio
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