by Dan Goldin (@post_trash_)
Toronto’s Life In Vacuum released their fifth album, Lost, back in April, the band’s first for Born Losers Records (Sculpture Club, Paul Cherry, Cathedral Bells). It’s a record that finds the trio playing inspired post-hardcore music with a dexterous edge, knotted and mathy, with a pop-punk heart. It’s big of sharp angels and swooning hooks, jagged rhythms and gang vocals. Life In Vacuum sound lively, surging with a kinetic energy from start to finish and they navigate brash and intelligent design. With the album four months old and a handful of dates together with Pile kicking off early next month, the band are set to release “Lately,” the first in a string of Lost b-sides.
“Lately” touches on the band’s most caustic side, the heavy riff and the skronky density of the rhythm balance between a pop sheen and bouncy sludge. Rusty and scraping at the edges of accessibility, Life In Vacuum swarm with buoyant energy, the song a delicate mix of tension and soaring hooks, leading to a supercharged bridge that quite literally swallows the song whole in an abrupt decimation of the swaggering momentum that came before it.
Tour Dates (with Pile):
09/08 - Portland, ME @ SPACE Gallery
09/09 - Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground
09/10 - Rochester, NY @ Bug Jar
09/12 - Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern