Belong: “Image of Love”

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Written By Michael Gutierrez

Heavy experimental pop, with modern classical meets No Wave inspirations. Dense, but not busy. Belong is not reinventing the wheel, just hybridizing two different wheels that work fine. Our highlighted track “Image of Love” is a hard-edged, minimalist instrumental banger. Shades of Glenn Branca’s Symphony No. 3 with a drum machine. Off the full-length Realistic IX.

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