Melbourne/Naarm six-piece Shock Corridor sound like theyâve been left to coalesce in a rehearsal room with too many records and not enough resolution.
Post-punk, trip-hop, orchestral drift - theyâre pulling from all of it without letting any single thread take the wheel. Their songs donât so much arrive as accumulate, stretched and shaped through live performance until theyâve got a kind of bone-density to them.
âBusterâ, their first new track in almost a year, is beautifully atmospheric, though not in any passive sense. It recalls the tense, watchful mood of âA Forestâ by The Cure, all low light and forward motion.
A guitar line loops with the stubborn patience of someone whoâs already decided not to move, and rather than blooming around it, everything else (low-end pressure, distant synths) just adds weight. When violin and trumpet finally appear, they donât lift the track so much as cut across it, like details you notice on a second look that change the meaning of the whole thing.
âItâs named after my best friend and is about the importance of genuine human connection in whatever time historians will call our presentâ, says singer George Miller. âA lot of what weâve been writing comes from not really knowing where things are headed, and asking each other if weâre going to be okay without always having an answerâ.
đ§ Watch the video for âBusterâ below