"Looking through the eyes / Of a child captured in time / A kaleidoscope from a lifetime ago / I thumb the pages of the books you gave me..."
The hazy memories laden sweep of "Branches" by Wollongong, NSW, Australia based Dropping Honey feels beautifully vast and, well, dreadfully romantic actually. I suppose 'romantic' is a relative term and when it comes to music, it might just hinge on what in connected to that music. "Branches" with the crisp tubular guitar distortions, airy sonic landscapes, propulsive drumming, bottom heavy bass drones, carousing ambience and evocative shoegaze vocals cast in dense shades of reverb feels like an amalgam of 80's / 90's post punk and even 60's chamber pop in some ghostly way. For me, personally, those days feel cast in amber and bloody fingers from strumming my 67 Fender Jaguar too hard on stage feeling like an imposter.
On this track (my first introduction to Dropping Honey) I easily feel the nucleic acid of artists like Echo & the Bunnymen, The Cure, The Psychedelic Furs, The Church. I appreciate the gilded poetry that Dropping Honey deals in too.
"And sit on the swing that still hangs from the branches
Of the tree that you planted that spring
And I listen to the sound of the wind through the needles
As it whistles like you're singing to me"
Of the tree that you planted that spring
And I listen to the sound of the wind through the needles
As it whistles like you're singing to me"
Lovely.
Dropping Honey is comprised of Damien Lane (guitar /vocals), Jolyon Pagett (guitar /vocals), Darren Ireland (drums), Zac Morgan (bass) and on "Branches" featuring Jodi Phillis on backing vocals.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://droppinghoney.bandcamp.com/track/branches
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4 piece guitar band from Wollongong, NSW, Australia. With characteristic twin guitar lines and vocal harmonies, they combine elements of shoegaze, post-punk and indie/alternative rock to create a sound that is dreamy, immersive and intense.
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