{"id":70590,"date":"2019-05-03T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T15:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=70590"},"modified":"2019-04-29T15:20:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T20:20:27","slug":"brass-box-the-cathedral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2019\/05\/03\/brass-box-the-cathedral\/","title":{"rendered":"Brass Box: The Cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Brass Box is currently in the midst of pioneering a new sound in the world of shoegaze. Consisting of Ammo Bankoff (vocals, bass), Neil Popkin (guitar), Matt Bennett (guitar), and Pablo Amador (drums), the band got its start in Los Angeles, California and formed within the last few years. Brass Box spent their first few years together perfecting their sound. With that being said, their latest release, The Cathedral<\/em>, was put together very methodically, which shows in all ten of the album\u2019s velvety tracks.<\/p>\n

Over the last three years, Brass Box has released several singles, including \u201cMoonlight Desires,\u201d \u201cTragedy,\u201d and \u201cRivers.\u201d Each of them acted as a sort of precursor to The Cathedral<\/em>, given their wavy darkness. Given their multifaceted dreamy goth sound, the band has taken inspiration from myriad other performers, ranging from Joy Division and Depeche Mode to Rowland S. Howard and Dead Can Dance.<\/p>\n

The Cathedral<\/em> offers more depth than any of the band\u2019s singles; it acts as a more extensive portent of despair. They kick this theme off with \u201cBats,\u201d which very ominously emphasizes \u201cthe beginning,\u201d while much of the rest of the album alludes to an end of sorts. Specifically seen in \u201cDDM,\u201d which speaks of graveyards and death, but Bankoff manages to do so ever so smoothly. \u201cLatency\u201d is no exception to darkness; however, it is masked by enchanting vocals. As a whole, Brass Box\u2019s The Cathedral<\/em> was well worth the wait – this album failed to disappoint – and the band is successfully altering the world of post-punk as we know it.
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\nRecommended If You Like: Fawns of Love, The Morelings, Chasms
\nRecommended Tracks: 1 (\u201cBats\u201d), 3 (\u201cDDM\u201d), 5 (\u201cLatency\u201d)
\nDo Not Play: None
\nWritten by Amy Shea on 04\/25\/2019 <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Cathedral was well worth the wait and the band is successfully altering the world of post-punk as we know it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21359,"featured_media":70591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[8305,8351,8352],"class_list":["post-70590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rock-rotation","tag-amy-shea","tag-brass-box","tag-the-cathedral"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/brass-box_opt.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}