An 8:29 opener on a four-song EP? DREAR isn’t fucking around. Our highlighted track “...Flashed Before My Eyes” comes off the self-titled EP, and it sounds like a bridge being built across the river Styx. Thumping progressions reel off in spiralizing patterns, designed to bore a hole through your skull. But wait! There’s more! Halcyon moments emerge from out of the electric fogbanks to reveal surprising moments of post rock tranquility, like the eye of the storm passing overhead. A brief stay of execution before the final boot drops in the second half of the song, pulling you under like a tidal wave sucking surf, sand, and small children out to sea.

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