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Published On: Thu, Nov 13th, 2014

RxGF: Any Other Way

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Any Other Way
(Orange Allies)

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Any Other Way is the fourthĀ release from Brooklyn/Seattle indie-darkwave group RxGF.

Crunchy grit and plunky atmopshere with tom tom backing pushes the title track along, while we get growly voices and a dark jungle beat of Matthew Burgessā€™ percussion on ā€œHow To Make It,ā€ a nod to Siouxsie and The Banshees.

We get the first color of electric guitar and some good melody on ā€œWe Will Not Be Deniedā€ with bleed-through keys and what I feel is one of the best vocals here from singer Angeline Schaaf on one of the bandā€™s more realized tunes. ā€œAntidoteā€ gives us that roiling synth noise, akin to NIN and again Shaaf with plodding synth bass parts. The soft keys and snapping beginning to ā€œThe Hitā€ reveals a shunky beat with a male vocal this time and some dramatic synth lines over a building trash dance beat. When IĀ reached the song titled ā€œKontrollier Die Kontrollierenden,ā€ I suddenly realized that throughout Any Other Way,Ā this four-piece band is as much mining Kraftwork territory as Ultravox, which is what the mix of bleats and burps and toms remind me of on this tune.

ā€œFlowā€ is all metallic arpeggiating roiling bass synths, very cool stuff, and Iā€™m reminded of Kratfwork again with a hint of Tangerine Dream. I liked this song a lot, though itā€™s not much of a song overall. John Morgan Reillyā€™s heavy drumming is very good here though.

Thereā€™s a lot of sound to what RxGF manages and a certain attitude one either will take toā€¦or not.

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