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To Your Face

Take your time to say good bye
To the place you’re leaving
Diving in, fading out
Into the world you’re staying in

I’ll be here by myself
The choice was mine, I’m staying
Diving in to bring you out
When your world starts crumbling

Days have gone, time has passed
But my world stopped turning
Diving in, fading out
Into the world you’re staying in

There you were, by yourself
Tears were drawn on your fingertips
Take my hand, we’re diving out
Into a place where we’ll begin

Dive

It’s always the people in between, the ones who straddle genres, that make the most exciting music. So even as Secret Shine—in their guitars, in their harmonies—echo the sound we call shoegaze, the drift we call dreampop. they bring a level of pop smarts to their music that few of their sonic contemporaries can touch.

On the strength of last year’s reissue of Untouched comes Secret Shine’s new album There Is Only Now—on Saint Marie Records, the most vital dreampop label in the world today.

Back in the early 90’s Secret Shine got snatched up by seminal indiepop label Sarah Records, because Sarah could hear the hooks in the haze, the vitality in the vocals, so much more than a trend, so much more than a sound. It’s obvious Secret Shine grew up in love with pop, in love with ABBA, in love with the Smiths.

But oh what a sound they make. The majestic grandeur of ‘All In Your Head’ is a slow-motion fireworks display that leaves your breathless. The secret is in the keyboards, the extra layer of sound that adds a cinematic quality to the pulsing guitars, or adds early Depeche Mode popcraft to the sinister ‘Dirty Game.’ Just listen to the delirious countermelody in ‘Drift Away,’ closer to Disintergration-era Cure than anything My Bloody Valentine or Slowdive ever did.

There’s a menace, and a presence, in ‘To The Well’ that separates Secret Shine from their peers, that elevates them far beyond the faceless & the frothless into an emotional bleakness that digs under your skin. Or take the relentless heartbreak of ‘Things I Said,’ a song that proves that Secret Shine aren’t about pedal boards, they’re about what it means to be human and struggling to live.

Buy Here!

Secret Shine - Falling Again

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They Were Selected And Divided

You're Jovian - Pieces

The third track off our debut album which came out 10 years ago in 2007.
This is a brand new recording of Yesterday Morning. This song should have been massive.  I'm gonna re-do the entire album track by track so look out for track four in April.
Enjoy

Yesterday Morning

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Daydream EP

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In Vain (Radio Edit)

Bluest Sunshine

Music of Ren Julius Reyes. Inspired by shoegaze, dream pop, indie rock, jrock/jpop

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