Known for explosive, danceable, and unpredictable live performances, Vancouver-based noise/art rock outfit Still Depths has shared stages with Sasami, Gustaf, Crywank, Bootlicker, Wombo, and PISS, while touring with Preoccupations and Guerilla Toss, and taking part in festivals such as Treefort Fest, New Colossus, and Sled Island. Whether in a packed DIY venue or on a festival stage, the band delivers a visceral, feedback-soaked performance that embraces chaos without ever losing control.
The trio now release Alike and Unlike, a three-song mini-album characterised by contrasting soft and extreme textures, raucous forward propelling movement, and forms that subvert traditional verse-chorus-verse structures. Its 12 minutes are flush with high-energy, circular drum rhythms, vocals that move from sweet harmonies to piercing yells, as well as twangy distorted electric guitar moving between repetitive riffing and lead hooks.
Opener ‘C Ya’ reflects on leaving home and shedding familial and societal expectations, Still Depths fully embracing their propensity for complex song structure via a most stylistically diverse epic.
‘AI Girls’ explores fake intimacy and potential digital consciousness through high-energy, unfiltered punk.
‘Ceiling’, Alike and Unlike’s closer and most expansive track, navigates themes of social media saturation, personal relationships within a scene, and the search for self-worth through work.
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