Sacremento’s Screature play a really wicked brand of goth infused post-punk on their self-released, and self-titled LP, out now via their Bandcamp page. The group is comprised of four close friends who had no real band experience before they decided to rent a practice space and make some noise, and it finds Liz Mahoney on vocals, Miranda Vera on drums, Sarah Scherer on organ, and Christopher Orr playing guitar. Their debut was recorded late last year by Chris Woodhouse (Thee Oh Sees, Mayyors) at Hangar Studios, and on the record Screature doles out a psychically punishing group of tracks. Sampling the three cuts from their Bandcamp page, “Siren”, “All In All” and “Last Day“, you can hear Mahoney’s dramatic vocals taking center stage, capable of alternating between dull sneer and strident howl, while Orr matches her anguish with piercing sheets of guitar noise and shards of post-punk, all to the band’s tribal, churning low-end. “Siren” in particular stands out, with Scherer’s panicked synth tone rising from swamp blasts of guitar, while, in the end, Liz Mahoney’s shrieks devolve into a siren-like wail. Call it California dark! Looks like there will be a future Screature release on the Bay-area micro-label and press Mt. St. Mtn., but nothing definite has been announced yet.
