Infinitefreefall - Desecrated Landscape (self-released)

Many bands claim to “defy categorization,” and the ones that make a point of repeatedly saying such things usually fit easily and obviously into a genre or are summed up in a tried and tested, ready-to-use sound bite. So, I guess any band for which you need a whole string of terms and sonic labels, qualifiers, and suffixes to adequately describe is as close to being genre-defying as anything can be. So, with that in mind, let me introduce you to the kaleidoscopic-shoegazing, kraut-rockish, post-punk-infused, alt-rock driven, ambient yet cavernous, proto-psychedelic sounds of Infinitefreefall. And don’t tell me that just falls off the tongue with ease.

The title “Desecrated Landscape,” the latest one from this Charleston-based vehicle for Maxton Stenstrom’s vivid sonic imagination, in a way, sums up the band’s approach to music. If the creative playing field of the past music maker was one of demarcation and organization, of tribal allegiance and regimented lines, this is the sound of a band running amok through it, pushing over boundaries, upsetting the generic apple carts, and generally plundering the place for whichever sonic shiny things take their fancy.

Here, Infinitefreefall pushes alt-rock guitars through a shoegaze filter, creating walls of noise from chiming and shimmering salvos. They drive such six-string soundscapes via pulsing bass lines and resounding drums and then wash and weave synthy sonics through the whole thing, softening the edges and adding digital intrigue as they go.

Somewhere between alt and post-rock, between ambiance and angularity, between the indie and the industrial, between shock(ingly good) and awe(some), that’s where you find Infinitefreefall.

It must be a lonely existence when you find yourself standing this far out from the pack.

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