“I wanted to continue along that journey of heavily effected psychedelic guitars, but I wanted to streamline my songwriting”: How Kylesa guitarist Laura Pleasants went from drop-tuned sludge to “skeletal” guitars for post-punk solo project The Dis
(Image credit: Adriana Iris Boatwright) If you first came around to Laura Pleasants’ guitar playing through the maximalist, effects-soaked sludging she brought to Kylesa – the cult metal quartet she co-founded in Savannah, Georgia, in the early ’00s – the sound of her current solo project, the Discussion, might come as a surprise.On her debut…