{"id":2188464,"date":"2025-12-05T19:30:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T19:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2188464"},"modified":"2025-12-05T19:30:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T19:30:02","slug":"new-music-friday-roll-out-dalek-charles-hayward-tombstones-in-their-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/new-music-friday-roll-out-dalek-charles-hayward-tombstones-in-their-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music | Friday Roll Out: D\u00e4lek\u00a0&#038; Charles Hayward, Tombstones In Their Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>We\u2019ve been here before. Not that I mind at all because Los Angeles\u2019 <strong>Tombstones In Their Eyes<\/strong> I\u2019ve become familiar with the last few years, listening to the band\u2019s music. The 5-person band, while straying away from anything heavy, does come across much like a desert rock band, sans the metal. There\u2019s always been a beauty surrounding its constructed numbers, usually monophonic but the texture all around is soothing as the sweet, lazy voices move across the landscape. It\u2019s no different on <strong>Under Dark Skies <\/strong>(Kitty Robot). \u201cYou Never Have To Love Me\u201d alone, encompasses all of that but here starting off with an acoustic guitar and builds around it. Distorted guitars are majestic and alluring, drawing in listeners all around, regardless of preference. At this point, I thought I could probably call it but the band does surprise with its melodies on \u201cSick So Sick,\u201d but \u201cAlive And Well\u201d is infectious, with the same wall of guitar melodies we\u2019ve become familiar with and the harmonies are so inviting. It doesn\u2019t get much better than this.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=595598482\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tombstonesintheireyes.bandcamp.com\/album\/under-dark-skies\">Under Dark Skies by Tombstones In Their Eyes<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>D\u00c4LEK &amp; CHARLES HAYWARD \u2013 <em>HAYWARDxD\u00c4LEK<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Since the tail end of the 90s, very few artists have continued to write and record music with feverish bursts of creativity. But for many of them, death, creative differences, mental health issues, and troubles of all sorts have forced many away from stages and studios. But it\u2019s the few, the very few, who storm studios, release material, and continue to push the boundaries that never seemed to exist.<\/p>\n<p>Prolific emcee\/producer <strong>d\u00e4lek<\/strong>\u00a0is no stranger to collaborations, his most recent team-up with Faust\u2019s Hans Joachim Irmler creating the singularly explosive Anguish. This time around, he\u2019s joined by legendary This Heat drummer\/multi-instrumentalist Charles Hayward for the HAYWARDxD\u00c4LEK (Relapse) release. The album was written in a whirlwind of 2 days, and the results just might surprise you. The album, over an hour\u2019s worth of material, while mostly instrumental, doesn\u2019t suffer from a lack of vocal inclusivity as tracks stand on their own. Yeah, that cat\u2019s out of the proverbial bag, but it\u2019s something to be expected. The opening \u201cIncrements,\u201d with its rumbling bassline, is accentuated by Hayward\u2019s hi-hat and crash cymbals with a rhythm that\u2019s not only hypnotic but allows for an oratory sensory explosion. At just over four and a half minutes, it barely registers in length, and you don\u2019t want it to end, to explore the layers of sound around it. While there are incendiary moments throughout the album, some rides are a slow simmer, taking leisurely strides until arriving at their final destination. That\u2019s how \u201cBetween The Word And The Drum\u201d slinks through. For the first two minutes, the buildup is a quiet and low-key affair as percussion slides into keyboards and then, d\u00e4lek\u00a0offers his thoughtful wording. This is when Hayward hits drums, allowing the buildup to gain much more traction. While you may expect a free-flowing release filled with experimentalist movements, this is much more rhythmic, and when d\u00e4lek\u00a0spits that chorus, \u201cbetween the word and the drum,\u201d you\u2019re completely sucked in!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBreathe Slow\u201d is hard, in-your-face objectivity coming from d\u00e4lek. While he spits aggressively over the noisy rhythm, spewing his words that stem far from braggadocio, he doesn\u2019t take himself completely seriously, and you can hear it in his words when he says, \u201cYou can take 75% of what I spit with some levity\/I burn my own fucking effigy, born in the obscenities.\u201d If he were a dragon, I\u2019d say he was breathing fire. But he also acknowledges his comrade at arms here within the chorus spitting, \u201cAy yo son, you burning me x3\/ this heat reaching further B\u201d and he does it with a refined finesse.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no escaping the sound manipulation throughout the album, which is all-encompassing. From a production aspect. \u201cSalvage\u201d is so theatrical and stunning. The singular movement captivates, and the dirty string samples are filled with so much drama you just want to hold on and ride it out. One thing about d\u00e4lek,\u00a0though, is that he\u2019s never strayed from saying what\u2019s right. Not known for being a political emcee, some of his subject matter may be politicized, recognizing what\u2019s wrong in the world. \u201cSharpened tongue comes standard\/they compliments (looking) backhanded\/2025, and they still fear a black planet\/freedom comes when we demand it\u201d is off the powerful \u201cAsymmetric\u201d and it\u2019s obvious, d\u00e4lek\u00a0doesn\u2019t mince his words. Both he and Hayward create a sonic space that\u2019s inviting for all\u2026 well, maybe not for those sucking on the corporate teat, but you get it. \u201cSojourn,\u201d though, at almost 11 minutes long, is a musical sculpture that defies gravity. Again, it\u2019s a slow burn that eventually collides with the sun as Hayward\u2019s drums mesh with the keys and layered sounds. Yes, this is special, and we understand the level of sound manipulation as levels rise and eventually fall. And then there\u2019s \u201cAs Children Chant,\u201d where d\u00e4lek\u00a0rides the soundwave, carefully choosing his words in order to offer clear imagery. The music, while seemingly dark, is fitting as he grips his mic tightly, reflecting on the past 70 years of assault on culture, a country, men, women, children, fathers, mothers, sons &amp; daughters. He finds balance within the unbalanced, echoing words many offer, day in and out. This is a beautiful, politically charged number.<\/p>\n<p>Without a doubt, both d\u00e4lek &amp; Charles Hayward are masters of their craft, with the ability to hold everyone\u2019s attention with just one note. With <strong><em>HAYWARDxD\u00c4LEK<\/em><\/strong> they have redefined what anyone is capable of and has the ability to do within their respective medium. Sound manipulators? No, they\u2019re sound assassins. If there was any complaint, it would probably be that these two should have worked together sooner. But I can only guess that time and fate happened at this very moment for this specific moment. Genius.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 350px; height: 470px;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3084773508\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dalek.bandcamp.com\/album\/haywardxd-lek\">HAYWARDxD\u00c4LEK by HAYWARDxD\u00c4LEK<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source ghettoblastermagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve been here before. 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