Pleasure
Album | Pure X
Austin trio's appealing albeit gloomy debut.
Austin trio Pure X were originally called Pure Ecstasy, but that seems entirely the wrong psychoactive substance to describe the sound of their debut album. Too bad there's already a band called Codeine. Weed, Tequila and Benadryl would work as well, though as a band name, it's perhaps too on-the-nose. Regardless, Pleasure is an appealingly narcoleptic bummer of a record, all reverb and drones coloring a dark and melancholy suite of songs. Atmosphere trumps songwriting here: singing guitarist Nate Grace's vocals are buried under the instruments, with effects-laden guitars alternately pealing and droning in the foreground. The influences are clear, from Neil Young's druggy mid-'70s work to the tactile neo-psychedelia of Galaxie 500 or My Bloody Valentine a little over a decade later, but the band does a fine job of melding them into a cohesive, albeit gloomy, whole.
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