12th House Rock is as much as a title for Narrow Head’s second record as it is kind of its own genre. The 12th House, you see, is the name given to an unseen realm in astrology, a mysterious and mystical twilight zone where all your dreams, emotions and everything else without a physical form exist. The members of Texas quintet Narrow Head don’t necessarily believe in any of that, but that hasn’t stopped them crafting the perfect world for it. From start to finish, these 13 songs swirl in their own dark universe, hovering in a space-time continuum of their own making crafted from the perfect measure of alternative metal, post-hardcore and shoegaze, with some extra ’90s stylings thrown in for good measure. The result, however, is neither derivative nor affected – rather it’s one of emo...
