Kill Symbols are an alternative act from Glasgow, UK.
The project recently put out a new album called The Valley of Humiliation, and it’s currently streaming on Kill Symbols’ Bandcamp along with the rest of the extensive discography that this band has put together in a very short amount of time.
This album was described in a press email sent to us as “a DIY Disco Journey Through the Apocalypse,” which couldn’t be a more apt description. The album is based around disco elements, but those disco elements are used in different ways than you’re used to. Kill Symbols created something oddly dark out of disco, something you could never imagine dancing to in roller skates.
“A Poster on the Wall” starts off the album with a classic disco beat and guitar, but the lyrics are bleak and cynical in contrast to the normal, upbeat lyrics typical of disco. “All Things Run Their Course” is similarly nihilistic in its attitude towards finality despite using music that’s typically designed to be dance party music. “Spring” really shows how far this concept can go as the song slows way down with an almost shoegaze atmosphere to it. Finally “Twenty-Five Years (For S. R.)” ends the album on the most melancholy song, but also the one with the most infectiously driving backbeat, as the epic song continues on for 25 minutes.
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