Sign Language fiddle with loads of the identical stylish influences which have been popping off within the indie and hardcore house thus far this decade, however within the Cincinnati band’s palms they add as much as one thing that feels larger, heavier, and catchier than your common Bandcamp discover. On debut album Madison & Floral, launched final Friday and boosted by an endorsement of the band from Monday from hardcore videographer extraordinaire Sunny Singh aka hate5six, the album serves up monolithic swells of grungy, shoegazy post-hardcore that makes these tropes really feel vibrantly alive, not crushed to dying.
I’m speaking dense, churning, effects-laden guitar chords shot by with concord. I’m speaking huge drum bombardments during which each impression echoes to the heavens. I’m speaking rumbling bass so highly effective you could possibly bust open a financial institution vault with it. I’m speaking a three-headed vocal presence that weaves in fierce wails, candy serenades, and ugly, guttural conflict cries. Singh isn’t kidding when he writes that this band has the potential to be large — and primarily based solely on the sheer magnitude of their music, they already sound large.
Stream Madison & Floral beneath.