We idea we knew Seeyouspacecowboy by way of now. Since debuting in 2019, the San Diego darlings were a uncooked but melodic collective, straddling the limitations between screamo, mathcore and post-hardcore. However new album Coup De Grâce opens with a minute of swooning sax and twinkling piano. From the get-go, all bets are off right here.
It turns into an aptly different-sounding get started, although, whilst you imagine how a lot trade there’s been throughout the SYSC camp during the last couple of years. Horrifically, singer and co-founder Connie Sgarbossa tried suicide after completing the quintet’s earlier album, 2021’s The Romance Of Affliction, however has since deserted leisure medication. In flip, her lyrics have reworked from explorations of private strife to fantasies about dancing your issues away as the arena ends.
Much more instantly audible are the workforce shifts in the back of the scenes. SYSC are nonetheless rounded out by way of guitarist/vocalist (and Connie’s brother) Ethan Sgarbossa, co-guitarist Tim Moreno, bassist Taylor Allen and drummer AJ Tartol, but Coup De Grâce is produced by way of Matt Squire. Squire replaces Romance… dial-twiddlers Isaac Hale (guitarist of Knocked Unfastened) and Matt Guglielmo, and – having up to now produced Panic! At The Disco’s step forward debut, A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out – is helping push the up-and-comers from savage “sasscore” to impressively impossible to resist and genre-smashing scope.
After the aforementioned living room track of opener Permit Us To Set The Scene, Delicate Whispers To Take Your Breath Away pulls affect from indie rock to make for a bouncing dance-metal anthem. Connie’s vocals are, in an instant, the most efficient they’ve ever sounded, simply as gifted on your conventional hardcore snarls as extra colourful emo-pop croons. The deluge of melodies she sings are reputedly a push for broader attraction, however with the ferocious breakdowns of And The Two Slipped Into The Shadows and Silhouettes In Movement, it’s an evolution versus an abandonment of rules.
The star-studded array of visitor performers handiest reaffirms SYSC’s stratospheric possible. Spiritbox’s Courtney LaPlante duets with Connie all the way through To The Dancefloor For Refuge: a scrambling but romantic post-hardcore piece that appears like The Callous Daoboys broke into Paramore’s practice session room. In the meantime, on Lubricant Like Kerosene, Tiktok sensation Kim Dracula stands because the melodic counterpoint to Connie’s apoplectic screams, ahead of the pair unite for a refrain that gracefully soars sky-high.
Seeyouspacecowboy are nonetheless Seeyouspacecowboy. Coup De Grâce boasts greater than sufficient rampant hardcore to end up that time. But that is fury with function, and that function, realised by way of crystalline manufacturing, tasteful visitor spots and a plethora of addictive melodies, appears to be snatching the heavy metallic brass ring. SYSC will take over, so get on board or get out in their manner.
Coup De Grâce is out on April 19 by way of Natural Noise. Seeyouspacecowboy are lately traveling North The us with Higher Enthusiasts, Overseas Arms and Greyhaven.
