Holy Esque at the 2016 ei8htball sponsored SXSW Live4ever Media Lounge (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever Media)
Holy Esque were one of the bands to stop by Live4ever’s ei8htball sponsored Live4ever Media Lounge during the 2016 South By Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas last month.
The band talked us through their origins and plans for debut album ‘At Hope’s Ravine‘ in our main feature which can be read here, and go further into those early days and more on the visual highlights.
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Holy Esque released their debut LP earlier this year. “The band’s USP undoubtedly lies in Hynes’s singing,” our review reads. “If his guttural vocals ever commit a crime they’ll stick out like a sore throat in a line-up. John Lennon‘s hoarse performance of ‘Twist and Shout‘ was all the more impressive given he had a cold, but that was one song.
“Hynes maintains his sandpaper larynx from opener ‘Prism‘, a chorus-free growl of guitars and industrial drums, through to last number ‘At Hope’s Ravine‘, a slightly flat end to an album puffed up with enough gains to wonder why it’s taken them five years to release an album in the first place.”