Free Electric State

Add Date: April 27

Artist: Free Electric State

Album: Caress

Label: Churchkey

Genre: Rock

Comments: From the promoter: "Conceived in the musical hotbed of Durham, NC, Free Electric State draws from shoegaze and noise rock to create a dark, velvety wash of sound...on their debut LP, Caress, Free Electric State wraps listeners in a tense yet comforting embrace...Often big, often lush, the group's engrossing sound is generated by guitarists Koslowsky and Williams' wall of blissfully dense guitarss, while drummer Tony Stiglitz steadily pounds out heavy, driving rhythms. Singer/bassist Shirle Hale's mourful voice adds a somber element to her dark and often impressionistic lyrics of loss, lust and regret".

The instrumentation is solid and aptly described, but there's an element of your traditional heavy-rock style which slightly limits how interesting the vocals are and how the song could be constructed. It's RIYL "Liars," but the vaguely traditional take on heavy noise stops it from being a totally apt comparison. With that said, certain tracks are more than solid and quite interesting: check out 3, and 5.