Down I Go
Gods
Shelsmusic

As Jesus may or may not have said, let’s start with the Good News, shall we? Down I Go are back with a new record, and it’s as awesome, varied, and straight up odd as you could hope for. ‘Gods’ might be an EP but it features more interesting digressions than most bands manage to cram into a full length (and more than many others take in their entire careers), a suitably unhinged four-tracker with a classical Greek theme and, more importantly, more jerky, tumultuous post-post-everythingcore goodness than you could shake a trident at.

If you’ve seen the terrifically silly video for ‘Poseidon’, the second track on here – and if you haven’t you really should, it’s amazing – you should have some idea of what to expect: complex rhythms, volatile vocals, and more twisty turny bits than a particularly knotty python. Though it sounds a bit difficult on paper in reality it’s entirely listenable and rather catchy, melody always one of the London outfit’s most important tools. ‘Demeter’ surfs a woozy groove right through to its more tranquil finale, while ‘Atlas’ is a two minute epic, twinning bizarre, psych-disco vibery to the urgency and anger of the sharpest post-‘ardcore. Funnily enough the Greek Narratives work really well too – they can add ‘Mythcore’ to ‘Disastercore’, ‘Robotcore’ and all the other genres they’ve spawned to date.

Oh, and, the bad news? Only that this’ll be the last we hear from Down I Go. Set to go their separate ways, this lot will leave one hell of a discography behind them when they go the way of the dodo, and ‘Gods’ is a fitting conclusion to their lengthy and convoluted saga. As well as doing a massive favour to struggling Classics students they’ve produced another mini-masterpiece, and we will miss them.

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Review by Rob Sayce