A year after the everything-all-at-once approach of Circle Takes The Square’s As The Roots Undo, Brooklyn band Gospel’s sole full-length The Moon Is A Dead World defied the screamo genre in a totally different way. CTTS’s song structures are proggy, but Gospel indulged in the dizzying riffage of classic ’70s prog rock, the droning atmosphere of space rock, and the hypnosis of psychedelic rock, all while keeping one foot firmly planted in classic-style screamo. It made for an album that still sounds like virtually nothing else in the world. It’s got all the harsh, impassioned shouts and beautiful aggression that you hope for from screamo, and it trips you the fuck out too.
