Italian shoegaze band Kodaclips returns with their second album, Gone Is The Day, released under Sister9 Recordings on September 6, 2024. This release sees the band dipping their signature shoegaze textures into post-punk influences to prod disillusionment, detachment, and nostalgia.
Gone Is The Day opens with the energetic track โGlaze Over,โ which immediately sets a vibrant yet melancholic tone for the record. The lush riffs are met with thumping drums, while the high, ethereal vocals echo within a fuzzy wall of sound.
The title track, โGone Is The Day,โ comes in with driving riffs and sparkling cymbals that crash and slice through the atmosphere. The music dies halfway and comes back up surging with a gnarly drive, and the singerโs voice ascends high up ethereally with a celestial, soulful reverb bathing him in a spiritual light. This song intrudes upon the impermanence of all except memories, with remembrance and sorrow.
โDeadlockโ brings a subtle, rhythmic dynamism to the album. While it maintains a chill, low-key energy, the gritty beats and melodies blaze with a quiet intensity. This track explores feelings of stagnation and the internal struggle to break free from a sense of despair, with lyrics that touch on fear, freedom, and the inability to forget past wounds.
One of the most haunting tracks, โSurface,โ takes the listener into darker, more atmospheric territory. The eerie, atmospheric background sounds and deep, breathy vocals polish the unnerving tone right from the start. Shrill, high-pitched melodies pierce through the soundscape disorientingly. The tension builds, engulfing us in claustrophobic yet eerily captivating settings.
Available on vinyl, listen to the musical representation of misery in Kodaclipsโ Gone Is The Day.
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Photo credits: Matilde Pretolesi
Review by: Naomi Joan