Brooklyn’s All Forces may sound like starry-eyed dreamers on first listen, but beware: one minute you’ll be enjoying a well-placed high-powered rock jam, and the next you’ll find yourself caught in the depths of a moody freak-out. On the band’s debut EP, ‘Sons & Daughters,’ the band have pulled these two sides together for tracks like ‘We Have Arrived,’ one of their most epic, slow-building jams yet. Complete with the band’s all-female rhythm section and singer Johnnie Wang Morlock’s hair-raising vocals keeping things on edge.
All Forces have an urgency about them that instantly remakes all their inner anxieties into high-powered shoe-gazery dance jams, and this record captures these fleeting moods perfectly. It’s an impressive array of influences coming together (from The Cure to Broken Social Scene and… maybe even early R.E.M.?) to create some very bright, and some very dark moments. Keep an ear out for the record dropping on April 8th, and check out ‘We Have Arrived’ below. – Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)