War Honey – Sweeter Than The Average Fudge

 

 

War Honey – Sweeter Than The Average Fudge
Handstand Records – 2023
Indie, Rock, Alternative, Dream Pop, Slowcore
Rated: ****

We mentioned their Shard To Shatter four track release from 2020, when it was released on vinyl through Handstand Records in 2022 and we also mentioned their other four track called Last Woman Left At The Market released in 2022. Which means, we are eighty percent done with writing something about Sweeter Than The Average Fudge, War Honey’s new release, which is a compilation of those two EP’s and the singles also released in the past two years. I Don’t Blame The Rats ends this ten-track edition and Skinless sits in on number eight. Vocalist Gabrielle Dana has the ability to turn the operatic tone on and off, and when she forgoes the huge gestures, she sweetly and softly sings bitter suggestions into your ear. Skinless therefor becomes this Florence Welch, jazzy, slow moving chamber music that is as enchanting as it is unnerving. I Don’t Blame The Rats adds to this with a new level of intimacy and stronger concentrations of release, but it also alienates, making you feel like you are losing grip and that those rats in the attic will not meander by, but stop and stare at you or gnaw at your feet. And then there are all those dreamy sequences, coloring it all sugar, even though the overall feeling is that War Honey are experts in delivering Dream Pop Noir. Darker that all that sweetness that drips from you fingers…

(Written by JK)

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