Grave Babies, a Seattle-based band fronted by C-U native Danny Wahlfeldt, took a dark turn on their latest album, Holographic Violence, out now on Hardly Art. In doing so, they garnered the attention of tastemaking music publication Pitchfork. Read the review here, complete with typical Pitchfork music-writing expressions including lines like the following:
“candle-lit-bat-cave, Peter-Murphy-drinking-merlot-out-of-a-human-skull levels of goth”
“Wahlfeldt’s controlled chaos shudders and swirls around him”
and “It would be easy to imagine it as the soundtrack to a sci-fi film where teenagers in bondage gear roam a dystopian wasteland.”
Wahlfeldt used to play in local band Coco Coca, though that was before my time here. The scene evolves, people come and go. It can be sad to see great musicians in great bands leave, but when they go they often do great things like this. Stream the album where it premiered on Noisey and decide if you think it deserved that 6.4 rating.