{"id":8414,"date":"2023-01-13T10:04:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T10:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipamusic.co.uk\/?p=8414"},"modified":"2023-01-16T10:05:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T10:05:12","slug":"haest-s-brooding-second-album-belabour-will-leave-you-wanting-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipamusic.co.uk\/?p=8414","title":{"rendered":"Haest’s brooding second album Belabour will leave you wanting more"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

ALBUM REVIEW: Haest – Belabour (TNSRecords\/No Time Records)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Haest <\/strong>are a four-piece doom punk band from Hastings and Belabour <\/em>is their second full-length album after 2020’s debut Anomie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They take their cues from hardcore, doom, sludge and noise, among other genres, but have come up with a sound that’s very much their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haest feature members of Matilda’s Scoundrels, The Barracks, Wizard Fight and The Dead Anyways. I hadn’t heard of them until last year’s International Split LP<\/em> on TNSrecords<\/a><\/strong>, but they sound like a slower, heavier version of Idles, and I like them a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Haest are a doom-punk band from Hastings and Belabour <\/em>is their second full-length album.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Belabour can mean ‘to attack someone physically or verbally’ or ‘to argue a point in excessive detail’, both common problems of our social media obsessed world. That’s fitting, as Haest’s lyrics discuss how we are who we are pretending to be, constructing ‘perfect’ lives for ourselves on our various digital accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Song titles like In Cunt Tropicana Drinks Are Double Priced<\/em>, He Still Hasn’t Grown Into His Left Ear<\/em> and Mr Sad Man, Bring Me Your Cheese<\/em> are chosen randomly from a list of absurd quotes collected by the band while on the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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