clay rendering: we are aware

Clay Rendering, the tortured pop project of former Wolf Eyes member Mike Connelly and his wife Tara, pledge three diverse but unmistakably gothic sacrifices soused in the spirits of black metal, cold-wave pop and shoegaze. With Dominick Fernow as producer and effectively acting in a third band member role, they triangulate a sound that's nostalgic for the gothic undertones of '80s and '90s darkness. "We Are Aware" is hearse-cruising cold-wave pop rocket pointing towards the BM toil and shoegaze anguish in "Never Pass Away". "Towards Motionless" is an instrumental cocktail of ice cold, sounding like Badalamenti meets ambient Plastikman.