Album Review: Mutes - Dreams of Being Cornered
Mutes - Dreams of Being Cornered This is the first review for the site from Dan Tanswell . Dan is a non-binary North Walian writer living in Cardiff. They are mostly sustained by biscuits and white noise. I haven’t written anything for a long time - I’m being honest, maybe too honest - not anything that anyone has read anyway. I’m finding things I was good at as a kid therapeutic and the other thing is writing about music is a great way for the analytical area of the brain to get a good work out. I came at this release blind. The press pack describes Mutes as a ‘prog-punk trio’, but I was pleased to find this release leaned into the prog element of that really hard. The opener is a lo-fi Porcupine Tree- esque affair that feels like it was designed to ease us in before track 2 jolts us awake. ' Identifier' switches between layered guitars and melodies and more distorted driving heavier riffs with ease and I wouldn't be surprised if this was the next single. It’s more