Brooklyn-based trio Neuro Fuzzy have been performing live across New York since 2023, and are now releasing their debut single – ‘Hamar’.
After a swirling white noise intro, things start to coalesce. Bass and guitars go in opposite directions, and it creates a really unique, dissonant sound. The simple, distorted guitar riffs reminded me of some classic ’90s grunge, but the track is drenched in a modern shoegaze fuzz.
The track settles into a nice groove, and the unusual chords keep things on edge. It feels like something slightly scary might be just around the corner.
The vocal carries those strange melodies perfectly, and the Estonian lyrics add another interesting layer to the track.
The band writes: “Drawing on Baltic roots, the lyrics weave poetic Estonian phonetics into meditations on longing and inertia, capturing the internal conflict of yearning for a glowing world under the weight of stagnation”.
Hopefully, this translation of the opening lines is correct:
Every day I look out the window
The sun sets without me
The gold flows, shines through the leaf
I look at this beauty, beauty without me
I liked the unsettling dissonance and the way the song kept revealing melodic ideas right until the end. The wailing, growling guitar solo that finishes the track feels like the last breaths of a slain beast.
‘Hamar’ is a confident, brooding debut with unseen depths that are waiting to be discovered.
Written by Grubby
