On “Bats,” the new track off their upcoming debut full-length The Cathedral, Brass Box’s ethereal goth-shoegaze style contends with death and darkness, as frontwoman Ammo Bankoff’s wails keep time to reverberant strings and dramatic percussive beats. The whole thing sounds as if it were lost at sea, tossed about by moody waves beneath rolling claps of thunder.
Bankoff met bandmate Neil Popkin at an underground party in LA; some bands Bankoff played in (Tête, Black Flamingo) occasionally shared the stage with Popkin’s bands (War Tapes, Rituals), and the two discovered a creative symbiosis. They added guitarist Matt Bennett (War Tapes) and drummer Pablo Amador (Rituals) to round out the foursome.
Brass Box’s debut LP The Cathedral is set for release on April 5 2019 on Dune Altar.
