South Korean sludge crushers Gawthrop have been bouncing across the underground since 2018, releasing a collection of splits, demos and EPs that established them as a really nasty band. Seven years after forming, they’re able to unleash their first full-length on the world within the type of Kuboa and Decibel has an unique premiere of the latest monitor, “Jimmy.”
From the rip, “Jimmy” may be very, very heavy. Gawthrop immediately recall the likes of Corrupted, Noothgrush and Meth Drinker, imbuing their model of downtuned, blown-out sludge with a way of hopeless nihilism. Noisy, chugging guitars and tortured, reverbed-out vocals observe the drums like a hopeless loss of life march, harkening again to the style’s early pioneers.
As Gawthrop inform Decibel, the timing of writing and recording performed a significant function within the oppressive sound on show:
“Kuboa was written and recorded in the course of the COVID lockdown. With on a regular basis routines disrupted and the established order disintegrated, our weekly observe classes have been one of many few issues that gave us a way of normality. The music, in a roundabout way, displays the claustrophobic, surreal high quality of town we skilled it on the time.”
Talking extra particularly about “Jimmy,” Gawthrop inform Decibel the music is a re-recording of a monitor on their three-way cut up, Far East Nihilism Entrance.
“After our first demo, we wrote a collection of songs based mostly on names that have been extra compact and direct. ‘Jimmy’ got here from these classes. It stays certainly one of our favourite tracks to play however it was beforehand solely obtainable on a cut up EP. We determined to re-record Jimmy in order that extra individuals can get to know him.”
Test it out beneath. Kuboa is out on September 19 through Sentient Spoil.