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CMU Approved
Approved: Mass Gothic
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 14 July 2016
The new project of former Hooray For Earth frontman Noel Heroux, Mass Gothic’s debut album was a released earlier this year. Though largely guitar-driven, rather than sticking tightly to a sonic palette, the record is a genre-hopping collection, where instrumentation and sound is built around what is best for the song.
This by no means makes it an incohesive record, but gives the freedom for Heroux to express a wide dynamic range in his writing. For example, though clearly by the same writer, tracks like ‘Every Night You’ve Got To Save Me’, ‘Want To, Bad’ and new single ‘Nice Night’ paint a broad picture of his world.
‘Nice Night’ is the ‘Mass Gothic’ album at its most stark, driven almost entirely by a distorted bassline, carrying Heroux’s almost reluctant vocal on a slow, downbeat journey.
Watch the video for ‘Nice Night’ here…
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