HAVE A NICE LIFE The Unnatural World LP

HAVE A NICE LIFE The Unnatural World LP

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   Starting with their 2008 album Deathconsciousness, the New England duo Have A Nice Life has been perfecting an offbeat brand of blackened gloom pop that has incorporated subtle elements of doom metal and industrial music into their quirky, low-fi epics. It's one of the more original versions of this sound, forgoing a straight-ahead Joy Division throwback for something even darker and more sonically damaged, but with fantastic songwriting that makes this stuff intensely catchy in spite of the band's inherent weirdness and noisy tendencies. In some ways, Have A Nice Life's approach to mutating that classic post-punk sound reminds me of what Justin Broadrick does in Jesu, forming the songs around vaguely ominous pop hooks, the melodies infused with heartache, each song wrapped around a soaring hook that tugs at the tattered edges of your spirit, while flooding the sound with an almost suffocating layer of distorted fog.
   And on the band's second album The Unnatural World, the effect is devastating. Their latest album of cynical, jet-black post-punk is further improved by the band's move away from the snarky, tongue-in-cheek song titles of their debut, and the opening song "Guggenheim Wax Museum" sets the bar pretty high with a powerfully gloomy, glowering melody and huge booming drums that echo through the vast chambers of the Unnatural World. Those rolling drums rattle across "Defenestration Song", transforming it into a driving propulsive anthem to negation. A simple, infectious guitar line snakes through the waves of echo and the impassioned vocals, evoking all kinds of ghosts of classic 80's goth n' gloom, but the noise level is cranked way up via all of the billowing feedback; it's as if someone dropped the catchiest Echo And The Bunnymen stuff into an ocean of industrialized shoegaze overload. Other songs take a more reserved approach: a muted beat on the snare and bass drum pulse through the solemn shadowy drift of "Burial Society", then reshapes it into a booming fire dance; "Music Will Untune The Sky" finishes up the first side with waves of hymn-like guitar drone and distant percussive rattling, as it slowly builds into a slow-moving wash of dreamlike guitardrift and ecstatic voices rising skyward in harmony, bringing a beatific, triumphant glow to the final moments of the side. A haunting vibraphone-like melody slowly unwinds over the beginning of "Cropsey" before everything erupts into another one of the album's most stirring pop epics, the dark new wavey hook blasting out of the synths, shifting at intervals into a much more metallic, monstrously distorted sound when the guitars all crash in like a wave of molten asphalt. The bass player whips out a bass line worthy of Simon Gallup, then blasts it with a din of howling feedback and distortion as the drums kick up a pounding rhythm in the background. Guitars suddenly lurch out of tune, and funerary organs drone through the overcast gloom, and the band finishes the album with a chorale of somber voices drifting in harmony, a final swell of intensely moody gloompop that lingers long in your ears...
  Everything sounds as if they recorded this in the back of an empty warehouse in the dead of winter, and it sounds absolutely perfect. I would imagine that fans of everything from Cold Cave and Cold Body Radiation to Nadja, Swans and Vaura will no doubt fall under the dark, lonely spell of The Unnatural World.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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