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Track of the day: Black Kalmar Skull

  • Writer: James Shipsides
    James Shipsides
  • Dec 11, 2020
  • 2 min read

Track of the day: No One Else

Artist: Black Kalmar Skull

From the Album: To All Whom I Loved

Genre/s: Metal/Blackgaze/ Post-Rock/Ambient/Alternative Rock/Shoegaze/ Prog-Rock


Track of the day is from Italy’s Black Kalmar Skull, a solo-artist & multi-instrumentalist who blends genres and styles to produce a fusion of Metal, Post-Rock and a leady guitar US Alternative Rock Sound, combining Prog-Rock with a Shoegazy Ambience and off-worldly Electronica. ‘No One Else’ is track 2 on the Black Kalmar Skull album, ‘To All Whom I Loved’. At the end of the text is a Bandcamp link to this tune.

On with the review!


No one else: This tune kicks off with a meanderingly memorable guitar riff which stretches, flies and inhabits the intro. Slowcore style drumming and a pulsating bass underpin the guitar, such atmosphere and mood is conjured up very quickly. Then the riff brakes into a guitar jangle as distant, hazy, almost Psychedelic vocals flow in. There’s nuances and hints of various genres of Alternative music, Shoegaze, Dreampop, Metal, Sadcore. The vocals perfectly match the guitar with the melody manifesting itself as poppy and hook filled. It’s the sort of tune that gets stuck in your head, or that you hum along to, although this one has an ethereal, dreamlike delivery. The simplicity of the tune really does it favour, there’s a memorable verse and chorus, expertly weaved together. There’s a warm, mellow, breakdown of a guitar on its own as the riff transforms and goes off in a different direction. This section gives the ‘No one else’ a sense of both gravitas and anticipation as the listener just knows that something is building, ready to come crashing back in. As drums patter and bass rolls back in, the song slightly changes again and enters a much more Baroque-Rock or Prog-Rock musical territory. This is very bright, pretty and has a musical sophistication to it, this is before vocals and the distorted guitar riff fly in once more. The now familiarity of the chorus helps to guide and draw ‘No one else’ towards it’s climax. A Shoegazy guitar solo prettily gnarls it’s way to the brief feedback-finish.


🎼Click on the link to hear ‘No one else’ by Black Kalmar Skull: https://blackkalmarskull.bandcamp.com/track/no-one-else


 
 
 

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