21 minutes of doom-laden, post-hardcore sensibility. 21 minutes of monolithic disequilibrium, seething guitars and guttural vocals. 21 minutes in Lastelle’s new EP ‘Delicate’.
Having teamed up with Year Of The Rat Records/ Beth Shalom Records, the ‘Delicate’ EP is not for the faint-hearted, despite the underlying emotional thread, you better go into this with an open mind if your unfamiliar with Lastelle’s signature vocals and passion for guttural bouts of sound.
The aptly named EP, despite its hard outer edge, runs on disconcertion and emotion, clashing Snowdon level drum beats through themes of a sensitive and personal nature.
Fine-tuning the balance between gut-punching power and an untampered sentiment, the six tracks are typically Lastelle, filled with throttled vocals and seething guitars, pinpointing exactly what post-hardcore lovers need in their lives.
Forming in 2018, this Oxfordshire based band relishes in the density of post-rock being compared to the likes of Devil Sold His Soul, Casey, Underoath, Being as An Ocean and even The Elijah. If somehow even this doesn’t catch your fancy, how about their extensive coverage from, BBC, Kerrang, Original Rock, Dreambound and being playlisted on Apple Music, Deezer and Spotify, racking streams of up to 350,000.
Evidently, they are smashing through the music scene with an arsenal of fans and support which have been rightly earned. With tracks that feed off fire and sensitivity, ‘Only Apathy’, ones which share a personal tale of loss ‘Departure’, and others which push through your speakers with enough intensity to bowl you over ‘Distant bodies’.
Of course, there are a couple of toned-down tracks, or even completely instrumental ones like ‘Reverie’ that pauses briefly to bleed in the quiet…however, it isn’t long before Lastelle are back and belting, naturally breaking up the silence in the way they do best.
Having previously reviewed their leading single from the EP...
…we had originally only seen a glimpse of what this mammoth EP would have in store for us, but now we can assure you, you will need your seatbelts on for this one. All that’s left to do now is buckle up and wait for the release on the 26th February 2021.
Pre order links – https://show.co/NXX3Ol5
Physical pre-order link – hyperurl.co/LastelleEPBundles