Sonically? My Bloody Valentine through a Chernobyl winter...
Greet Death's "Die in Love" aches with a bitter aftertaste of beauty. It pulls forward on a haze of delay pedals and grief. Formed in Flint Michigan - the band has long toed the soft/loud line with a painterly sense, but this new offering leans further into the kind of soot-caked dream that shares more with Cloakroom, Planning For Burial, or even a slower, sadder Whirr than their earlier post-hardcore roots might suggest. Tracks move with a confidence that puts the emotion in the front, occasionally overshadowing it with the production. Vocal delivery on "Motherfucker" is equal parts smoothing and melodic - but the content and some crooning sounds like it's coming from Chernobyl with fresh snow. It's haunting. Devastating. "Same But Different Now" builds to a storms of harsh noise. Overall, smothered reverb and tape hiss is the mantra, but Greet Death sonically split the difference between shoegaze murk and Midwestern emo very well.
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A bit of an odd release considering the bulk of the Deathwish catalog, but Greet Death fits. Their sense of heaviness isn’t about aggression; it’s about weight - emotional, and environmental. This is music for solitude in the rain, for texting people you shouldn't, and for wandering through the dead zones of memory. And in that way, they echo the sad grandeur of bands like Have A Nice Life or Holy Fawn, whose records feel like entering a sanctum. "Die in Love" slouches and sighs for sure... but I'm just not yet sure if it slams the door at the end - or dares you to enter.