GHETTO SUNRISE IS described as a โdrum and base bandโ in the promotional literature, and Iโm happy to report that I got a cheap laugh out of that wee faux pas, which in part made up for the torture of having to listen to the Auckland groupโs frankly abominable 13-track debut.
I should perhaps have taken heed of their own recommendation/warning: โGhetto Sunrise bombastically [my italics] fuses hard-edged drum and bass and pulsing dubstep with smatterings of Bristol-inspired trip-hop, all under the influence of a heavy metal rhythm section.โ Promise, or threat?
Let us not beat around the bush: this is the worst thing Iโve heard all year. Itโs an aesthetic trashcan, with the very limpest iterations of drum and bass clichรฉ vying for sonic space with rancid rapping and ineffectually grinding guitars.
Add to that rudimentary beats, dire keyboard synths on horrid โstringโ settings, and sound thatโs so bad you wonder if it was all recorded on a $99 Transonic karaoke machine.
It makes you wonder why they even bothered. GARY STEEL
Sound = 2 Stars
Music = 1 Star