Album Review: Hallows – All That Is True

I’m constantly drawn to sinister sounds and the droning synths that often come with the genre tag “darkwave.” As someone always chasing the sort of “high” that autumn, Halloween, and Scorpio season elicit, I find myself listening to classic favorites like TR/ST’s self-titled album, or Crystal Castles I, II, and III, chasing after that haunted and atmospheric feeling I experience around that fleeting and all-too-short season. HALLOWS are a Seattle-based duo flirting with this very sound, while also mixing in their own post-punk flavor, and embracing elements of other genres throughout the album’s 10 tracks.  The first track is a short, simple, instrumental, a handful of synths laid on top of another with a persistent drum loop, though it plays the p...

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