Band: HYLDA
Genres: Punk / Post-Rock / Post-Metal / Metal / Metalcore / Metallic Hardcore / Math Metal / Mathcore / Doom / Sludge / Ambient / Experimental
Genres: Punk / Post-Rock / Post-Metal / Metal / Metalcore / Metallic Hardcore / Math Metal / Mathcore / Doom / Sludge / Ambient / Experimental
Related artists: ?.
Country: Connecticut U.S.A.
Years Active: 2022-present
For fans of: Mare, Kowloon Walled City, Isis, Old Man Gloom, The End, Hope Drone, Deafheaven, R. Josef, Malevich, and Sumac.
Country: Connecticut U.S.A.
Years Active: 2022-present
For fans of: Mare, Kowloon Walled City, Isis, Old Man Gloom, The End, Hope Drone, Deafheaven, R. Josef, Malevich, and Sumac.
Label(s): Self Released
HYLDA is a three-piece band from Connecticut that released a full length earlier this year that blew me away. I saw it posted somewhere with a peculiar description that I didn't end up agreeing with, and thought I'd submit my own. Do you like Mare? Of course you do. How'd you feel about Mare with some super fast parts and no clean singing? Yep, I thought you'd like that.
The band's 'Juniper Pyre' is a 46-minute beast of a debut album featuring 13 songs that will lead you on a fantastic journey of unique/interesting arrangements and mesmerizing/pulverizing moments. Honestly, this is one helluva a first record and am surprised it wasn't picked up by a big label as this showing up on Hydra Head, Relapse, Pure Noise, or Prosthetic really wouldn't surprise me. Right from the get-go "Garden of Eyes" will lull you in with the ominous, sweeping, sludgy, and oddly timed first progression, complete with haunting, near-death vocals. After the 50-second mark the band triples their speed and gets super mathy, with excellent transitions, additional chugs, and piercing notes before sliding back into the sludge-math. "Gemini" showcases a much sunnier side of the band, with the higher screams and danceable groove of the instrumentals (during the intro) being in stark contrast to the opening track, as well as sections later in the same song. There's also a super jazzy midsection that completely jumps genre ship and I love it. "Entanglement" begins with a leading acoustic guitar and holy fuck does it sound amazing, especially when sewn together with distant vocal cries and drum flurries, giving it an Old Man Gloom meets Kowloon Walled City vibe. Easily one of the best songs on the album and a standout genre-fuck.
That's just three of the first four tracks, and as I could go on at length about each song in paragraph detail I'll save us all some time and try to end this review so you can spend your time properly, falling hard into one of the best albums of 2022. Wildy progressive yet digestable and a joy to dissect. I would release that next album in a heartbeat.
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DISCOGRAPHY
2022 - Juniper Pyre digital LP (stream/donate/download here)
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(2022) HYLDA - "Garden of Eyes" (from 'Juniper Pyre')
(2022) HYLDA - "Entanglement" (from 'Juniper Pyre')
(2022) HYLDA - "Muffled" (from 'Juniper Pyre')
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HYLDA additional links
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