Facs - Void Moments - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Chicago trio Facs have evolved very quickly in the span of their three years in existence. InchVoid MomentsInch is their third & latest offering; a dark & claustrophobic album with rivulets of seismic beauty peeking through the din. Formed in the wake of the dissolution of Disappears, guitarist Brian Case & drummer Noah Leger's project is the logical continuation of the trails blazed in their former outfit. Since their 2017 debut InchNegative HousesInch, the band have reworked, retooled & reshaped their sound, and with the addition of bassist Alianna Kalaba on 2018's InchLifelikeInch, their evolution has coalesced into something distinct. Gone is the bone-rattling minimalism of InchNegative HousesInch; InchVoid MomentsInch offers an abstraction of the melodic elements that crept into InchLifelikeInch and contorts them toward a new horizon. Where InchLifelikeInch rang with a metallic, near-industrial racket, InchVoid MomentsInch cloaks the music behind a black velvet curtain of sonance, obsfuscating the band's most direct set of songs to date. InchBoyInch kicks off with a lurch of vocals and Case's sinewy guitar-line guiding a stoic march. By the time Kalaba drops in with the bass, the track morphs into a milky swirl, leading into the chiming swirl of InchTeenage HiveInchs buzzing churn. InchCasual IndifferenceInch expertly fuses the band's rhythmic pulse with a somber dissolve of guitars, vocals and backwards-masked drums. InchVersionInch closes out side one with rich surges of Case's shoegaze'd guitar & voice weaving around the rhythm section. Side two careens in with Leger's cavernous drums, with Kalaba and Case riding alongside. The album's final two tracks InchLifelikeInch and InchDub OverInch cascade into one another, becoming one & act as a perfect analogy to InchVoid MomentsInch mutability, both musically & lyrically. Despite it's foggy presence, InchVoid Momen