The liner notes for Genune’s third album Infinite Presence imply that it’s bittersweet. The Romanian black metal group writes that it “is the product of the most radiant hope and the deepest absence,” prompting the image of extremes grinding against each other, and their blend of atmospheric black metal, shoegaze, and post-rock supports that on paper. You’d expect the jagged edges to clash with the optimism. However, Genune’s latest single, “Stay a Little Longer,” melds hope and absence into a simultaneous sensation. You can listen to it below.
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Although post-rock and shoegaze have shared a bed with black metal for enough time that there’s an aesthetic attached to the ordeal, how Genune combine them is worth discussing. The first single from their upcoming album, “The Sun Will Always Shine,” divided each ingredient, so much so Genune sounded as if they were switching styles on the fly. “Stay A Little Longer,” meanwhile, blurs these differences, recalibrating shoegaze guitar melodies into black metal and raveling clean vocals into its climax. It’s indicative of drama, yet Genune keep it vague. By pairing contrasting genre elements, the group keeps their cards close to the chest, and the hope and absence that shaped Infinite Presence pokes through without spilling on your shirt.
The band comments:
‘Stay a Little Longer’ is about witnessing illness and struggle in someone you love and being unable to help. Lyrically, it contrasts descriptions of psychological struggle imposed over the desire for the simplicity and tranquility of everyday life. The music follows the same progression, with the earlier parts of the song being aggressive and dissonant and switching to a more melodic stage as the desire for normality is invoked. The last part of the song was at the time I wrote it, an attempt at representing depression resolving into a return to harmony.
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Infinite Presence releases May 17 via Consouling Sounds.
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