Floored Faces and the massive ethereal noise of "I'd Be Broke" (Official Video)

 

“A love song to time and space...."

Seattle, Washington's Floored Faces have a massive sound, dense double saturated guitars, foggy shoegaze-esque vocals and huge bass and drums anchoring it all down lest it blow away. The dinge of sound is impressive and their most recent album "Kool Hangs LP", a sonic journey that "explores the absurd yet tangible fantasy of an apocalyptic world where the only personal belongings that remain are a motocross bike and a cassette copy of Monster Magnet's 'Dopes to Infinity', and a shotgun" is brilliantly dark and dirty. The kind of album you might want to listen to in the dark of night with headphones on. Fall asleep to it and you may have a leather clad dream that smells of gasoline and ash.

The most languid track on the album is "I'd Be Broke" is a masterful exercise in minimalistic heaviness. While the density of sustained guitar chords against a machine beat that introduces the punchy shifting drums creates a big sound, the dreamy "ooooh oooooooohs" have a dirty ethereal feel that softens the heaviness a little bit. Throughout the lead guitar work and bass push hard. The vocals feel slacker-ish, resolute and within it all I feel a sinewy post grunge underpinning running through this dreamy heaviness like a crashing together of Smashing Pumpkins and Built to Spill. I really dig this.

Floored Faces shares:

“A love song to time and space —fleeting experiences with a flash flood of life always coming at us full steam. It’s about holding people and memories we love close. Dedicated to a close friend who passed away too soon: never spend your time unwisely, never go broke.”

The trippy Official Video directed by the band will surprise you.

-Robb Donker Curtius

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Initially a passion project of Joe Syverson's (guitar, vocals), releasing the 5 Bite EP in early 2018, the addition of bassist Erik Cargil and drummer Colin English in August of that year confirmed instantly an undeniable chemistry, resulting in an explosive new sound based on kosmische driving rhythms, Sabbath tones, and rowdy psychedelic garage punk.Within weeks of the trio defining their new sound, FLOORED FACES were off and running, recording their first songs, released as the ‘101 EP’, at Hall of Justice studios. With the EP getting airplay on KEXP, Floored Faces set off to quickly earn a following, sharing stages with legendary bands Cherubs, Dead Meadow and other heavy psych bands from in and around the Pacific Northwest. Six months later, they found themselves back in the studio recording the ‘Alright All Night EP’ (2019) adding spaced-out synths to their fuzz-motorik sound. With this new EP getting plays on KEXP, KXLU in Los Angeles and KALX in the Bay Areas, the trio was already back in the studio by the end of 2019, wrapping up their debut full-length ‘Escapism Prism’ (2020) just as Seattle and the rest of the world went into COVID-19 lockdown.In early-2020, with the world on hold, FLOORED FACES had time to reflect on their first three years of explosive throughput, and ponder what it is that fuels the band's creative spark and drive to produce: life-changing experiences, finding resilience in the face of adversity and hardship, serve as a major influence in their productivity and desire to feed their passions, knowing first-hand that life is short and can change when you least expect it. This is not emotional fluff we're talking about, recognizing the band has found unbelievable influence from collectively enduring the hardship of nearly losing one of its members to a heart condition, a partner to gun violence, and coming to terms with the reality of managing the mental health of loved ones.Their new album 'Kool Hangs' explores the absurd yet tangible fantasy of an apocalyptic world where the only personal belongings that remain are a motocross bike and a cassette copy of Monster Magnet's 'Dopes to Infinity', and a shotgun. But there's more than that. "Shoot the Ground" begins this fantasy journey as the main character scavenges for food and other people; strapped with a shotgun he vents his frustration of hours, days and weeks of loneliness. "I'd Be Broke" is about time slipping away from the main character of this fantasy as "Now You See It" explores mentally going against the norm, and the heartbreak of going insane. Kool Hangs is pure fantasy staring down the band's collective, real-life trauma. It's genuine, sincere and has no pretense, a Holy Diver meets Bleach mind-melter of an album that the band cannot wait for the world to hear.

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