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Reality Red [LP]

Reality Red [LP]

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Bitumen – Reality Red [LP]

Description

Reality Red is the third album from Melbourne's Bitumen, previously described as industrial post-punk, Bitumen have expanded their sound into something broader, heavier and harder to pin down. Still dark, vicious and dramatic, Reality Red is more expansive - more focused. What it is, is a brilliant and ambitious Alternative Rock record, embracing everything that loaded term drags along with it — and it is glorious. Dynamic and layered, Reality Red is driven by propulsive rhythms, blistering guitars and a prowling and intense vocal presence. Songs shift shape, moving between genres and tempos, building tension before breaking into something unexpected. There is an underlying physicality to the record: restless, visceral and constantly in motion. For the first time, live drums enter Bitumen's established arsenal of guitars, synths, samples and electronic drums, with a guest appearance from from Andy Huhtanen McEwan (Tongue Dissolver). His playing brings a new kinetic force, pushing the songs into more expansive and volatile territory. Yet Reality Red also shows Bitumen at their most melodic, with acoustic guitar appearing alongside the electric. Vocalist Kate Binning's lyrics inhabit that same shifting landscape. Characters emerge and disappear—fictional, imagined, observed and autobiographical—creating a world where the personal and the surreal sit side by side. Her voice moves through these characters with menace, desire and ambiguity, giving Reality Red its particular sense of tension and unease. Reality Red finds Bitumen stretching beyond the confines of post-punk without abandoning the darkness that brought them there. It is heavier, stranger, more immediate and more expansive—a record that takes the familiar language of rock and pushes it somewhere considerably less comfortable. GENRE: GOTH ROCK, POST-PUNK, SYNTH-PUNK, DREAM-POP, INDUSTRIAL, ALTERNATIVE, NU METAL RIYL: KILLING JOKE, GARBAGE, CURVE, LEBANON HANOVER, EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN, SHE PAST AWAY, BOY HARSHER, JESUS & MARYCHAIN

Highlights

  • 8 tracks

Track Listing

Side A
01. Scent of Angels
02. Minutes of Pure Joy
03. Perffect Dress
04. Silversound

Side B
01. Rites Private
02. Architect of the Overflow
03. Casino Black
04. Racing Leather

Format Details

  • Label: It Records
  • Genre: Indie
  • Format: Vinyl
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