bdrmm

I Don’t Know

Rock Motion

Aug 04, 2023
Internet Unique

By Matt the Raven

On the primary journey by means of bdrmm’s sophomore album I Don’t Know, followers will discover the dramatic immediacy of 2020’s debut album Bed room is lacking. Launched on the peak of the trendy world’s largest well being scare, Bed room was the right antidote to the lockdowns with its shadowy atmospherics, taut, polyrhythmic beats, smoldering guitars, and simply the correct amount of The Treatment’s tuneful hopefulness.

However after a couple of extra spins, I Don’t Know reveals the band has traded The Treatment’s tuneful hopefulness for Radiohead’s adventurous experimentation, with out dropping any of the put up shoegaze/dream pop buzz created on their debut. A lot of the similar components are current however executed in unconventional methods, venturing away from pop construction whereas filling the contemplative and murky areas with dreamy guitar melodies and ethereal synths.

However whereas definitely extra expansive and maybe not wrapped fairly as tight—and displaying a assured maturity—I Don’t Know shouldn’t be all cinematic. The extra commercially accessible singles “It’s Only a Little bit of Blood” and “Pulling Stitches” take a web page from We Have been Promised Jetpacks’ playbook with frothy melodies, spiraling guitar riffs, and catchy refrains, whereas “Be Cautious” soothes and entertains with waves of effects-laden guitars and a slinky groove that makes it the right blueprint for contemporary shoegaze music. Different sonic pleasures are scattered all through with hovering guitar chords and searing leads which are tempered with easy interludes and sprawling backdrops equivalent to these heard on standout monitor “We Fall Aside” and the epic 8-minute nearer “A Last Motion”.

Bdrmm set the expectation bar excessive with a wonderful first document, so kudos to them for pushing the envelope and exploring new avenues, which is what we would like—and count on—from a band with a lot expertise. As a complete, this aesthetic fits the band nicely as I Don’t Know is an thrilling chapter within the up to date shoegaze e-book and proves to be an completed achievement that channels the band’s influences into one thing distinctive and recent that explores contrasting moods inside the context of melodic indie rock. (www.bdrmm.bandcamp.com)

Writer score: 8.5/10