Malice K aka Alex Konschuh
Angsty but beautiful, reminiscent of the whispery, intimate style of the late, great Elliott Smith, but also the occasional punk scream eruption, this darkly mesmeric, candid, introspective indie-folk-grunge-punk LP by New York-based visual artist and songwriter Alex Konschuh is a vivid, ghostly, and deeply emotional. Listening to opener Halloween, the impression is a far noisier, grating, harder sound, but most of the rest of the album is simmering, lo-fi and at times unflinching, visceral and tender, mixing acoustic and electric guitars with other strings, the album broadly a diary of the last two turbulent years of his life, the title doubly referring to the alternative performing arts high school Malice K attended and the Italian adverb, which, translated to English, means “to go forward.” Standouts include the wonderfully wistful The Old House (“But I can't help think there's something else that I forgot to do/ So I'm going back, exactly for what I don't know / I just thought that we could learn to try again … Just meet me at the old house, we can work it out somehow/ Even though all of these changes turned our lives to stranger days”), the power chord frustration of You’re My Girl, the cello-inflected Radio, and Raining, with its propulsive, percussive Raining (“You set me on fire and put me out / for what is trust / but making up for how you fucked up to begin with?”). An artist with definite power, presence and potency with a release that grows stronger on each listne. Out on Jagjaguwar.
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