Spectres - Dying (2015)

The Bristol-based four-piece are the loudest, most abrasive band on Sonic Cathedral to date, and one who make a
mockery of those articles that crop up every now and again asking if guitar music is dead. If guitars are supposed to be dead, wrote Drowned In Sound in their review of 2013's Hunger EP, it's probably because Spectres have killed them.

They certainly find influences in all the best places: first album My Bloody Valentine, Sister era Sonic Youth, the Loop of Heaven's End, Swervedriver's Creation-days desert-gaze, A Place To Bury Strangers total sonic annihilation and Royal Trux's squalid noise on Twin Infinitives to name just a few. The album opens with the ominous and unsettling white noise and dark found sounds of Drag takes in first single 'Where Flies Sleep' and is unrelenting for the next 50 minutes.

Produced and mixed by Dominic Mitchison (Velcro Hooks).

Featuring Oliver Wilde on backing vocals.

Mastered by Sonic Boom