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Lend An Ear: Shoegazers We're Listening To - Part 28

2017-1

Shoegaze

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Beliefs - Long Wings



GRAVE118 - Whirr 'Sway' out 9/23/14 on CD/LP/Tape/Digital (pre-order here: www.graveface.com/graveface-catalog.html)

When Sway begins, you might at first press pause, reaching for your headphone wire or peeking behind your speaker cables to make sure nothing has come undone. The blister of distorted guitar that opens the album comes only from the right channel, howling and hanging there in irascible isolation until it seems that something must be wrong.
But be patient: After a dozen seconds, the rest of Whirr—a five-piece of blanketing rock focus and comforting pop finesse—pours in from the left channel. They meet the guitar in the middle, together racing headlong into a short section that’s heavy as metal but pliable enough to be the springboard for the galloping shoegaze beauty that soon arrives.
For the next 36 minutes, you need not worry again about lost connections, split channels or anything else, really. More than any Whirr release to date, Sway creates a definitive sense of immersion, sculpting an environment that breathes you in instantly and breathes you out only when the record snaps into silence.
That bifurcated start is an appropriate image for Whirr in 2014. Last year, the band headlined a tour with the Philadelphia group and fellow admirers of heaviness and harmony, Nothing. Not only did the crews become fast friends, but their respective founders—Whirr’s Nick Bassett and Nothing’s Dominic Palermo—decided to start a group of their own, Death of Lovers. When the shared tour was finished, Bassett headed to Philadelphia for a month of writing and recording. He’s never really left. He calls Philadelphia home now, so Whirr has become a bicoastal band.
In Philadelphia, Bassett worked on Death of Lovers’ debut for Deathwish Inc., toured as the bassist for Nothing and steadily composed new material for the next Whirr album, their first full-length for Graveface. Back in Oakland, the rest of Whirr had committed to the project full-time, too, so the West Coast contingent wrote and rehearsed new material without Bassett. Joey Bautista took the lead on two songs, Loren Rivera on three.
Indeed, against most odds, Bassett’s move made for a more democratic Whirr. In their salad days, Bassett had written most of the material and built the bulk of the arrangements, too, using the support only to enrich and enliven them. After a slew of splits and singles and EPs, Sway is the second Whirr LP, but it is only the first to be rendered by a fully functional rock band, having shaped the songs slowly and over some distance.
Before the quintet entered Oakland’s Atomic Garden to work with longtime producer and collaborator Jack Shirley, they reworked the contributions of all three writers, massaging the material into a cohesive dynamo. Rivera, for instance, rewrote the words for Bassett’s material, folding his songs into the album’s presiding sense of dusky melancholy.
“It’s not conceptual, entirely, but it’s intended to ebb and flow in a certain way—one song being aggressive, then dropping out and being pretty but devastating,” Bassett says. “We tried to create an atmosphere, where you listen and get vibed into one tone. ”
That rhythm presides over Sway, tying its distinct parts into a seamless unit. The restless “Heavy” churns somewhere between Godflesh and Gish, its lumbering beat and foreboding guitar buoyed by a melody that feels like a secret hymn for which you’ve long searched. Gorgeous and sprawling, “Sway” floats through luxuriating guitars and pillowed vocals, offering an impressionistic but intoxicating inversion of Whirr’s typical propulsion. Even here, during the record’s prettiest moment, Whirr maintains a righteous minimalism, emblematic of members who met one another as skateboarding high-school kids.
“The aesthetic of the band is more aimed at mature punk rather than alternative rock,” Bassett confirms. “There are these more aggressive punk elements—noisy feedback, a snare roll that just goes into super-punchy, driving songs.”
“Clear” brilliantly paints its lyrical quest for lucid communication—“I want words/to understand you,” runs one plaintive, surging bit—in music that takes up the same challenge. Whirr pushes past a pastel instrumental haze into a hangdog march, with near-whispered vocals bruised by Devin Nunes’ drums and Eddie Saldago’s orotund bass line. But as the end approaches, the band builds together, the riffs and the rhythm colliding into one triumphant, redemptive crest.
And that’s the victory of Sway, too, an album written by five people on two coasts but executed with the force and splendor of, at last, a fully unified Whirr.
Graveface will release Sway on CD, LP and digitally September 23.


Whirr - Lines

Mirror Days new single for the upcoming EP titled Solstice

OUT OCTOBER 30th 2014

Window ( Official Single )

From our debut album, Glow In The Dark Music, available now at https://crashcitysaints.bandcamp.com/album/glow-in-the-dark-music.

Yesterday won't save us
It can't make us whole
Heal your soul
Lose your favorite jacket, 
and step into the cold of a new day
Be yourself again

Don't look behind in sadness
See what's yet to be
There's a better way
Force the hand of changes
Burn your cages down
Emerge from ashes
Be reborn again

We'll meet in far off cities
Break these rusted chains that hold us here
You've been feeling empty
The universe expands and is left hollow
Yearning for new birth, an act of creation
Something new
It's the dissension party calling you

Dissension! Dissension! Dissension!
Dissension party welcomes you

Dissension Party

Ever Even

See a cluster of rays, lighting up your way
That’s ever even
Celebrate a case of a fire parade
A constant fever
Set on fire the bones
Keep on dancing on toes
With a queasy feeling
Hear a stereo sound, coming up from the ground
That’s ever even

There’s a cluster of rays, lighting up your way
That’s ever even
Set on fire the bones
Keep on dancing on toes
With a queasy feeling
Celebrate a case of a fire parade
A coastal fever
Hear a stereo sound, coming up from the ground
That’s ever even

Ever Even

Losing Teeth

Track 3 off of Willow Steps EP titled "A Truth Too Big to See"

Shape Today

Secret Shine - Make Me You

Written and Performed by : Graham Harrington

Endless

Lonely Moon

Planning For Burial - Warmth Of You

MiaCameretta Records / Lady Sometimes Records

Registrato, mixato e masterizzato da Filippo Strang presso VDSS Recording Studio di Morolo, FR

Giuseppe Mazzoni – chitarra, voce; 
Sara Telesca – basso; 
Luca Poldelmengo - batteria.

Artwork - Luca Poldelmengo (Oldskull Design)

Big Domino Vortex

Mondrian

All songs written by Nathan Henderson, except song 3 which was written by Nathan Henderson & Lydia Des Dolles 

Produced by Daniel Doherty & Nathan Henderson 

Nathan Henderson: Guitars & Vocals 
Iain McGinn: Guitars 
Martin Fagan: Bass 
David Murray: Drums & Percussion 

All songs © 2016 Deathcapades Music Ltd. 

Recorded at Darklands Audio (Dublin, Ireland) 

Artwork by Nathan Henderson

Drones That Don't Kill

In The End

Download / stream ’Star Roving’: https://slowdive.lnk.to/star-roving

STAR ROVING

Slowdive - Star Roving

Words and Music by Peasant Moon 2017

Recorded by Michael Carpenter at Love Hz Recording Studio in Sydney, Australia

Lyrics: 
I hold the mirror up to the light
It only reveals those tired eyes
Well, I guess it's over 'cause you're not making my tea tonight
Well, alright

Now I walk that long hallway
And I feel alone
Empty bottles, black markers as I make my way home
You made me feel better, now I'm helpless, cold and stoned and low 

Wish I could go back in time tonight
Show you who I meant to be
Wish I could go back in time tonight
There's no way I'd let you go free

Never used to miss breakfast, now I'm lucky to lunch
Get no sleep on the weekend, trying to roll with the punch
There's lights and there's colour, they're too much but there's nothing at all
An empty form

Wish I could go back in time tonight
Show you who I meant to be
Wish I could go back in time tonight
There's no way I'd let you go free

Release Date: 14 February 2017

Back in Time

Back In Time

Austin-based freak punk destroyers Crooked Bangs are here with their brand new LP "II", out now on Nervous Intent Records ... physical copy available at nervousintent.com, digital download available at nervousintent.bandcamp.com

Official Release Date: April 21st, 2017 - More info on www.nervousintent.com

Crooked Bangs are from Austin, and are proud purveyors of a distinct musical form of the freakiness for which that city is so well-noted. Crooked Bangs could be described as dark punk noir, with brooding guitar and bass lines, Phillip Gonzalez' relentlessly powerful drumming, and smoky French/English hybrid style vocals from Leda Ginestra - but the energy and overall vibe delve deep into the a distinctive sonic playing field and atmosphere akin to early Sub Pop singles club releases. Samantha (guitarist) has a distinct guitar style that is reminiscent of the more-innovative second-wave Crass Records bands such as Rudimentary Peni, 90's heavy-but-melodic noise rock like Babes In Toyland, and the noisier side of UK82 HC, while the whole band's sound remains resolutely modern and compatible with the dark garage ouvre from stalwarts such as Lost Sounds.

Crooked Bangs' new album is called II. It was recorded by Ian Rundell (Ghetto Ghouls) and mastered at Enormous Door by Jack Control (Severed Head of State)

"Crooked Bangs are an Austin trio that plays brooding, multi-lingual post-punk with a noisy bent — think Savages by way of the Melvins, after a long Parisian vacation. Their powerhouse is bandleader / bassist Leda Ginestra, a versatile vocalist who plays deft games of hopscotch with language (English and French) and dynamics (caustic screams and mumbled deadpans); guitarist Samantha Wedndel and drummer Phillip Gonzalez buttress these performances with aplomb, resulting in a sound that’s as hellish as it is hypnotic." - Zoe Camp, CLRVYNT

"[Crooked Bangs] make you want to run, not walk to the nearest, sweatiest, and darkest basement or club show" --She Shreds magazine

"There’s something inherently cinematic about II. It busts wide open with “We Are Gold,” a forceful and infernal track best paired with a car chase scene. Track two, “Rabbit Hole,” positions Leda Ginestra’s vocals as the driving force of the record, elevating it to avant-punk. Ginestra’s low register manifests into a hellish Wiccan chant, with a gothic vibrato similar to Chelsea Wolfe and Siouxsie Sioux (“Out”). And for good measure, her monotony is punctuated by killer '70s punk screeches (“Baudelaire”). Wendell and Gonzalez provide the score for Ginestra’s bilingual singing (she howls in both French and English), supplying gritty, industrial bass lines (“Le Phenix”) and frenetic cymbals (“Suspendu”) to help keep us uneasy. “Blood Tableau” is a distorted send-off that tapers off into a cloud of feedback, much like quickening your pace on a dark street until you sigh in relief that you've made it home safe." --Taylor Silver, Le Sigh

Recorded by Ian Rundell (Ghetto Ghouls) and mastered at Enormous Door by Jack Control (Severed Head of State)

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Rabbit Hole

Slow Down

Lighfoils. There aren’t enough superlatives in language to praise Lighfoils. From their earliest self-titled EP, to their 2014 full LP debut Hierarchy, theirs is a tuneful but uncompromising path, charting their own course through rich dream pop. This exclusive track features Panda Riot’s Rebecca Scott taking over vocal duties for the release. https://dkfmshoegaze.bandcamp.com/

Lightfoils (featuring Rebecca Scott) - Retrace

Haunted Hearts

Hawaii

Soft Beach

04.Herlights - Mineola

Artist: Gold Class 
Track: Twist In The Dark  
Label: felte (The Americas, Europe, Japan, etc) & Barely Dressed Records (AUS/NZ) 
Release Date: May 3, 2017

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Twist In The Dark - Single 

Twist In The Dark

Gold Class - Twist In The Dark

In Other Words

"As Light Return", out on July 7th: http://www.tapeterecords.de/artists/the_telescopes

As Light Return

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The Telescopes – You Can't Reach What You Hunger

Tangy Dream

Buy/stream

Gravitation

2 X 2

Fever Dream - Youth (Is Wasted On The Old)

“An Indonesian experimental shoegaze band which formed in Bandung, Indonesia 2004. Their sounds is comprising indie sound scape influenced by experimental shoegaze and post-rock with an ambient dominated and exclusion of delaying guitar in almost their songs, taking every single common instrument into a flowing delay harmonization”.

Find a way (ft My violaine morning)

Preview track from Landing's upcoming self-titled album on Geographic North.

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Landing - Heart Finds the Beat

CLUSTERSUN have established themselves as a solid reality in the international panorama of fuzz & reverb purveyors. Their cosmic and 3D signature sound delivers massive walls of fuzz, otherwordly reverberations and psychedelic trips.
The trio formed in 2013 and debuted with a self-produced single, "Be Vegetal", that was noticed by Dave Allison of US indie label Custom Made Music and featured in the compilation CMM Summer Sampler. 
In 2014 they released the first album "Out Of Your Ego" (Seahorse Recordings) whose lead single "Hipgnosis" was featured in "REVOLUTION – The Shoegaze Revival", massive international compilation out in 2015 via Raphalite Records (UK/Canada) and Gerpfast Kolektif (Indonesia). CLUSTERSUN supported "Out Of Your Ego" extensively with a tour that also reached the US, with gigs in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and other cities of the East Coast. 
They also contributed to the compilations "Rock Back For Nepal Vol. I" (2015) and "Rock Back: Stronger Than The Storm" (2017), both issued by Patetico Recordings (US), and to The Blog That Celebrates Itself’s tributes to Echo & The Bunnymen ("Gods Will Be Gods", 2016) and Slowdive ("Just For A Life", 2017).
On 19th May 2017, CLUSTERSUN released the sophomore album "Surfacing To Breathe", again via Seahorse Recordings, with singles "Raw Nerve" and "Lonely Moon" receiving up to 40k views on YouTube. The new album "Avalanche", will be released on March 03rd 2021 by Icy Cold Records (FR) and Little Cloud Records (US).

CLUSTERSUN are:
- Marco Chisari (Vocals & Bass)
- Andrea Conti (Drums)
- Mario Lo Faro (Guitars)