Somersaults by Deathcrash
For fans of Champion Trees, Black Country, New Road, The Promise Ring, early spindly post rock, and that complicated feeling you get when you remember the view from your childhood bedroom window, Somersaults by Deathcrash grapples with nostalgia using a dark, calculated singer-songwriter style. A varied, challenging, distorted guitar tone takes center stage, one perfectly willing to depart from standard harmonies to put us on edge and pull at our heartstrings through melancholic arpeggios and crushing chords. Atop these foundations a grieving vocal addresses those uncomfortable moments when our adult lives come into contact with our complex past, resulting in poetic lyricism which forces us to take stock of our memories. As age naturally slows the rate of change in our lives and we settle into the future which once only existed as a blurry premonition, we sort our previous experiences and find the breadcrumbs which lead us to today, coming to terms with our path and finding the underlying meanings and motivations which keep us pushing forward.