{"id":28612,"date":"2024-12-07T05:30:08","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T10:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=28612"},"modified":"2024-11-25T11:06:22","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T16:06:22","slug":"album-review-afterimage-faces-to-hide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/07\/album-review-afterimage-faces-to-hide\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Afterimage \u2013 Faces to Hide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28613\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/afterimage_faces_to_hide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/afterimage_faces_to_hide.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/afterimage_faces_to_hide-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/afterimage_faces_to_hide-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>\u201cPost-punk\u201d is one of those labels \u2013 epithets, one might even say \u2013 created by music journalist to describe a type of music, but ultimately (as some or other playwright once said) signifying nothing. Tasked with defining it, I might suggest that post-punk is music informed by the punk ethos and movement, but placing a greater emphasis on melody.<\/p>\n<p>That, as it happens, is a fine way to sum up Afterimage, a Los Angeles-based group of the 1980s that features a sound owing much to the darker and moodier music of bands like Psychedelic Furs but with a sensibility informed at least in part by domestic bands like the Gun Club. Where the music sounds a bit like early Echo and the Bunnymen (with sax from that first Furs LP, the vocals are strongly reminiscent of \u2013 of all people \u2013 Dave Faulkner of the Hoodoo Gurus.<\/p>\n<p>One could \u2013 and often does \u2013 do much, much worse than make music that reminds a listener of those bands. On <i>Faces to Hide<\/i>, Afterimage get the texture and tone just right. The music is complex enough to delight close listeners, straightforward enough to satisfy those who came to dance. The tricky pitter-patter drum pattern of \u201cAfterimage\u201d (the band\u2019s theme song?) contrast nicely with the hypnotic and trebly bass work and the moody spoken-word midsection. They veer a bit too close to the Psychedelic Furs on the verses of \u201cRelapse,\u201d a near copy of \u201cWe Love You.\u201d But the chorus takes things somewhere else, so all\u2019s fair enough.<\/p>\n<p>This new collection \u2013 two vinyl LPs or a single CD \u2013 collects the entirety of the output form the early lineup of the band. That lineup didn\u2019t last long, and they never broke through in any meaningful way. A spin of <i>Faces to Hide<\/i> will leave you wondering why. And the reliably exquisite (albeit idiosyncratic) packaging for which Independent Project Records has come to be known is very much a part of this new release as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPost-punk\u201d is one of those labels \u2013 epithets, one might even say \u2013 created by music journalist to describe a type of music, but ultimately (as some or other playwright [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,49,53,62,65,73],"tags":[5572],"class_list":["post-28612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-compilation","category-new-release","category-post-punk","category-rawk","category-review","category-vinyl","tag-afterimage","cat-19-id","cat-49-id","cat-53-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","cat-73-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28614,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28612\/revisions\/28614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}