A friend once described this album to me as ’the complete MySpace-era alternative music scene condensed and refined into one album’.
A review on Abriction’s Bandcamp page says ‘9/11, Windows XP, the iPod, and My Chemical Romance all happened within a month of each other. And this is the world Abriction was born into. In a sense it seems like a straight line from there to here, the 2nd consecutive 80 minute album by this increasingly brilliant artist. The internet, late-stage capitalism, mental health crises, the suburbs. I don't know anyone channeling the precarity of American youth into intensely compelling music quite like Meredith [Salvatori, the sole creative force behind Abriction].’
Everything is Noise said of Banshee “If those ‘trve’ black metal gatekeepers thought Deafheaven’s Sunbather was too hipster to be metal and a stain on the genre for whatever reason that makes absolutely zero sense, I can’t even begin to fathom how they’d react to Banshee.’