Immediately recognisable as a record of a particular sort. GHLOW's Levitate is a horse of a certain colour. Dressed in a sleeve showing a feral, furious dog in mid bark. It all reminds you of nothing quite as much as the moment when Siouxsie and her contingent first boarded the train from Bromley to ignite the capital in the early months of '76.
It's almost impossible not to think of The Banshees listening to the songs here. The record has a furious, engaged intent. Although the tracks have a distinct saminess to them, this is not The Scream, it's a reminder of just how influential and important that band were in terms of igniting a movement which still has a vivid flame and energy it's difficult to douse,
GHLOW call themselves Electropunk are duo essentially and hail from Stockholm. They're not retiring Scandinavians by any means and you might like to warm your hands at their inferno.
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