New Band of the Week - 16/04/12 - Mueran Humanos

Tonight, the deepest darkest depths of the scary basement in SNH's shuttered up 'ole mansion-house are reverberating with the eerie sounds of Mueran Humanos.

Berlin based duo Carmen Burguess and Tomas Nochteff make music that is mesmiring and intensely dark.

Guttural and pulsating synth melodies are layered upon creeping atmospheric bass lines. The effect is almost trance-like and brings to mind the old zombie movie soundtracks by bands like Goblin, but spliced with something more ethereal. Its the corspe of Beach House cannibalised by Lucio Fulci and soundtracked by David Lynch, and its pretty glorious stuff.

Burguess has a captivating and timeless tone to her voice that works so well against this that it compels and bids you to walk those dusty boards down into the basement, and to stifle the screams as the unseen cobwebs brush your face.

Mueran Humanos have a self-titled debut LP out now. If you don't scare easily, we highly recommend it:

http://mueranhumanos.com/