For their debut album, In Ways, Slung shows themselves capable of a great poetic balance between gentle pop-folk and blazing modern rock. Review.
IN WAYS – SLUNG
Class A Cherry is shrouded in mystery with its dark riffs, addressing power dynamics in the lives of sex workers. The result is as chilling as it is powerful. Come Apart, which follows, brings a great dose of softness in its tale of a breakup. Collider brings back a certain tension wrapped in dreamlike tones. Its riffs blend beautifully into the blood-soaked Matador, denouncing bullfighting with a touch of metal inspiration. Limassol, on the other hand, finds balance between the modern day and thirty years ago through a tragic love story.
The atmosphere remains dark thereafter, albeit with dreamlike surges in Heavy Duty, then with a more furious edge in Thinking About It. In Ways, which gives the album its title, is an almost mystical and purely instrumental interlude that flows into the folk-tinged Nothing Left. Finally, Slung ends In Ways with another folk softness, Falling Down, a far cry from the album’s opening, yet, alongside the rest, very harmonious. The whole record is a poetic journey deeply marked by the sorrows and hopes of reality. The band becomes, in turn, both witness and actor of these moments, with great respect and great accuracy.
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