Last week saw New York’s Russian Baths release their new album, Mirror, via Good Eye Records.
We previously shared its second single “Bind” and today hit back with “Hunger”, one of the highlights of the record. It’s a blistering blend of 90s shoegaze that revels in the feel of the genre, with traces of bands like HUM, as well as more recent material from DIIV.
Speaking on the track, the band adds:
“We recorded this at Walter Schreifels’ place upstate. He suggested we put the guitar hook first. I’m glad we did. Jess wrote the progression sitting on the floor alternating two chord shapes in an odd tuning in practice. I wanted the vocals to be exceedingly intimate, especially in the second verse. I wanted everything to be exact and totally audible in the quietest and loudest moments, almost uncomfortably close. That approach makes the noise explosion in the song’s final passage even more chaotic and full than those before.
Enjoy a listen below and find the album available to stream/buy at Bandcamp.
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