SLOTH Make Math Rock Feel Properly Messy

An Attempt To Harvest Denial packs jagged guitar lines, shifting rhythms, emo melody and heavier turns into one very restless 22 minutes.

Review

This is my first time hearing SLOTH, and what stands out immediately is how much is happening inside these songs. The two-guitar setup gives them plenty of room to bounce between clipped, mathy phrases and bigger distorted passages, while the bass and drums keep changing the feel underneath them. It’s technical, but it doesn’t sound like the technical stuff is there just to show off.

“8/6 (Hachi Roku)” is probably the clearest example of what I like here. Even the title points toward the kind of rhythmic thinking going on, and the nearly five-minute runtime gives them space to keep twisting the song instead of settling into a predictable verse-chorus pattern. “Darth Paper” has a similar restless energy, while “Emerald Hill” is much more compact at just over three minutes. “Moon” then drops in at 36 seconds and feels almost like a strange little reset before “Tetsuo” closes the EP.

Going back to seeyoulater, I hear more of the emo side in tracks like “Smokescreen” and “Strawberry,” with “Asteroid Blues” stripping things down to an instrumental.

For me, SLOTH work best when all those ingredients collide: intricate guitars, nervous rhythms, big emotional vocals and just enough chaos to keep me guessing.

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