"a Denver-ite who leaves dark impressions"
When it comes to the sonic arts there are songs that hinge on words and melody alone, that can be formatted with just guitar and voice, piano and voice or voice alone and carry emotional baggage that you gladly carry. Then there are other sonic stamps pushed by noise, barrages of emotional button pushing that might leave impressions on your brain that might have more to do with tensions that seem to rewire your psyche. Listening to "Heel on Your Face" by Chaarm leaves a dark impression, a faint bruise put there by the pounding sounds. The context and genre stir here, maybe gothic, punk, industrial punk, goth pop, post punk or even cyberpunk hunks of clay molded into something else feels like the kind of sounds that would lend itself to other media, films or series that have to do with trauma of some kind (the series Yellow Jackets come to mind) as a soundtrack, a way to elevate the horror or to act as a band aid, cathartic cover.
In terms of reference points I may not be the best person to describe the sound here. I am far from a musicologist and sometimes my inclination is to stay cloistered in my love of late 70's proto punk and 90's post rock but feeling the roller coaster of genres here I feel a sort of amalgam of artists like Gary Numan's Tubeway Army, Siouxsie Sioux, You Love Her Coz She's Dead, Grimes, Deadmoon. You will certainly find other connections, that's what I love about music.
-Robb Donker Curtius
Ethereal Goth Pop from Denver
Chaarm, goth pop, dark, button pushing, industrial punk, noise rock, gothic rock, post punk, Denver, "Heel on Your Face", bedroom goth pop,
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