A Dead Forest Index EP

A Dead Forest Index – ‘Under A Winter Sun’ (mp3)

A Dead Forest Index – ‘Turning’

I posted about ADFI almost exactly a year ago. I was pretty blown away when I first heard them and was intrigued as to what they’d eventually sound like on their debut EP/album. Fortunately, they haven’t changed things up to much. Given that their songs are so melodic and potentially catchy, I’m impressed that they’ve kept things sparse and downbeat. As with their earlier song ‘Empty The Dark I Shall Raise My Lantern,’ these songs have ended up sounded almost like a field recording of a religious ceremony, with the layers of chanting harmonies sounding almost ritualistic.

The above songs are a mixture of sweetness and foreboding. Singer Adam Sherry has been gifted with a voice that is simultaneously both choral and haunting and he definitely knows how to play to it, as proven on the above and the rest of his band’s debut EP (out next week). I get a real ‘Children Of The Corn’ vibe when I listen to A Dead Forest Index. I like that. I wish more bands reminded me of  80s horror movies.

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