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Deeper “This Heat”

“This Heat” is the extremely crisp and rhythmically tight sort of post-punk, the kind that sounds as though it’s a mathematically precise chart of someone’s real-time anxiety that’s been transposed to musical notation. Deeper aren’t reinventing any wheels here – if this is a vibe you enjoy, it will sound immediate familiar and welcome – but they execute this mode of music at a high level. A lot of this comes down to Deeper being as adept with writing melodies as they are with creating a tense rhythm, and the way the vocals sound a lot like The Cure’s Robert Smith in the best possible ways, drawing on the raw humanity and open-wound melodrama of his trebly yelps. It cuts straight through the more schematic elements of the music to keep you focused on the angst at the core of it.

Buy it from Bandcamp.