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Noise Beneath The Floor
12+ albums
indieindie popemoindie rockmidwest emo
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Noise Beneath the Floor isn’t for the faint of heart. It isn’t just that their debut LP, A Year in Exile, is a concept album–they’re a concept band, one preoccupied with dreams and death and the ocean and memory. Their first album, which is about a fictional sunken town called Exile, CT, is dense and intricate without ever sacrificing melody or accessibility. Songs like the chiming “The Way I’ll Die” and single “We All Belong Here” have skyscraping hooks, leaning into vocalist Gavin McIntire’s natural charisma, and Jade Marié’s synth work lends some levity to “Wherever It Finds You” and “12:02 PM.” Other songs wind their ways to breathtaking crescendos, like the ten-minute block of the soaring epic “Carnivore” and the eerie, heavy “Leave Behind,” which features one of bassist Garrett Pavlansky’s best performances. Producer Chris Teti (of TWIABP fame) produced and co-wrote much of the record, and his touch helped guide the expansive post-rock of the second half of “Carnivore.” It’s a record that benefits from understanding the context and concept without requiring it. For example, although A Year in Exile was written and recorded well before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the United States, McIntire notes that fans unfamiliar with the storyline will still relate to its themes––the exile in the title is a metaphorical, self-imposed one, but one that finds parallels in quarantine. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms m
