GRAVE BABIES (Hardly Art/us)
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Seattle's Grave Babies—a band whose sound might suggest the need for drugs that stabilize mood, while creating, at the same time, a desire for ones that enhance them. Who doesn’t want a big sound to sound bigger, a mood to be moodier, and, on occasion, pain to feel more painful? Not to say that Grave Babies are mopes, or their music depressing or affected. Gothic, dark, spooky, post-punk: Toss out the adjectival assault currently heaped upon bands with any hint of feedback, somber lyrics, and the occasional gory metaphor. A band like Grave Babies is best served by seeking out the sounds below the obvious. Danny Wahlfeldt, the band’s founder, claims zero allegiance to the gloomy canon to which his music is often compared, owing more of a debt to ‘90s giants Nirvana and Nine Inch Nails. And despite Grave Babies’ fuzz and muffle, its near-metal moments, one senses a trace of a cleaner brand of pop—a flowery, even happy pop music—scraping along the sides of their sonically fucked up songs.

http://www.hardlyart.com/gravebabies.html
http://www.mtvhive.com/2013/02/19/grave-babies-crusher-stream/


POUSSE MORT (Skot Up/fr)
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Sequencer, mud, misfortune. Pousse Mort is extremely heavy, and in a wink, you'll convince your neighbors that you live in a certain misanthropy, with a touch of distortion in the hands of the world's coolest gas industry.

http://poussemort.bandcamp.com/