Description
The cover reads ‘How Life Strange Is’. Inside, the debut long player from alt-art-rockers Preloved Things.
This is uneasy listening. Brittle guitar breaks and confounding arrangements. Furious psychedelia, yet moments of wafer-thin subtlety. Drumming like a cat fight in a china cabinet. Lyrics like sublime trickery.
Stylistically, Preloved Things wear their hearts on their sleeve. Their maiden album hints at inspiration from Radiohead to Regurgitator. Album tracks blend influences from experimental rock acts such as BEAK> and Fat White Family, while others conjure a brooding atmosphere reminiscent of The Cure, or Portishead.
Songs titles like Cats Are Building Mouse Holes and K8lyn (With an Eight in it)’ foreshadow some serious conceptual clout. The album touches on themes that resonate in today’s post-truth, post-everything world: cost of living crisis; outrage culture; the state of sex; doomsday prepping and the impermanence of 21st century living.
‘How Life Strange Is’ was recorded in 2022-2023 at Alchemix Studios in Brisbane, Australia and produced by Marly Luske. The album serves as a space for the listener to anchor their existential dread. A support album for uncertain times.
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