“Dead Weight” by Pvris, Wednesday, May 18, 2022
Following the singles "Hallucinations" and "Death of Me" from the band's EP Hallucinations, Pvris released the single "Dead Weight" from the third album Use Me. The band has talked extensively about their new sound, moving from a conventional female-fronted rock band to, well, how would you classify Pvris? Each song on Use Me could fit into the genre of Alternative, one of the loosest genre descriptions today. Whether it's the programed drums, the pop hooks, the noisy guitars, or the throbbing bass, Pvris is now a rock-inspired dark pop band, or duo as of now.
TAKING WINGS OFF A GODDESS. Of course music doesn't need to be neatly classified. I spend a lot of time thinking about what gets classified as Alternative, though, and it makes me think that my definition that I coined back in the early '00s was correct. At that time, I began to see rock bands that incorporating instruments and electronic programing that had not been in rock music before. There were groups like Linkin Park, Evanescence, and Incubus carrying the torch of a new sounds. Alternative music wasn't driven by a heavy guitar, but rather the guitar was added as embellishment. I viewed P.O.D.'s only Top 40 hit "Youth of the Nation" as an example of Alternative Rock. Rather than power chords driving the song, it's a hip-hop influenced beat with a guitar picking single notes which are held over the measure. Sure, this definition didn't explain the early '90s grunge acts (Nirvana) that are Alternative Rock classics or the punk-rock influenced bands the genre (Weezer or Green Day), but the diversity of these bands and how they expand the Alternative genre with other musical genres is another component to my definition. Put simply, Alternative is rock-based music that has, in some cases, evolved beyond the guitar.
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