Vancouver three-piece Aversions make clamorous post-punk that is at once cathartic and anxiety-inducing, where the structured womp of post-hardcore shares space with the chilly, subterranean textures of goth to conjure a unique strain of “lush brutality. Live, the trio lean into the volatility at the heart of their songs, delivering a loud, tightly wound set that can turn without warning from brooding restraint to full-throttle abrasion.
Empty Century, the band’s fourth release, finds them expanding on 2023’s hard hitting You Wanted the Bike with songs that run the gamut from straight-ahead goth-rock on “Empty Century” and “Kind Word” to the proto-metal, Sabbath-like “The Cockroach.”
2027 sees Aversions recording and releasing new songs, playing at key national festivals such as Edmonton’s Winterruption and Vancouver’s Unreal City, and touring cross-country as well as playing their first shows in Europe.