The Weekend Showcase 4.25 edition is a doozy, featuring upbeat fair and some dark, titillating numbers. Forty-two songs are on it with the artists representing 11 countries. Learn more here: https://therevue.ca/2018/06/30/weekend-showcase-4-25/

Weekend Showcase 4.25

This Shame Should Not Be Mine

Notes on How to Trust

Dune Altar (DA-042)

The sonic equivalent of standing on a beach as a tidal wave approaches, listening to IRESS is to be aware of certain devastation, yet grateful to witness something so terrifyingly beautiful, and transfixed in anticipation for whatever happens next.

Formed in Los Angeles in 2010, IRESS employ dark, commanding elements of shoegaze, slowcore and metal, swelling in moments of cinematic-like crescendo.  Dubbed the “Adele of Doom” by her local LA music peers, frontwoman Michelle Malley’s vocals have the power to envelop with smokey warmth, destroy with anguished belting, and arrest with unbelievable restraint.  Bassist, Michael Maldonado, provides the much-needed anchor in the bewitching melodies and reverb, while drummer, Glenn Chu, pushes unrelentingly forward.  Guitarist, Graham Walker, joined in 2022 instigating a new, more collaborative way of working for the band.  This chemistry is undeniable on stage as the intentionality applied to live performances leaves audiences stunned to silence in moments, brought to tears in others when impaled by Malley’s emotional screams, all the while supplying a satisfying amount of crushing distortion to head bang through. 

The success of Iress’ newfound anatomy can also be heard in the exceptionally composed, staggering wave of doomgazey sound on the upcoming "Solace" EP, which tells the story of the brutal reality of change: inevitable, painful and beautiful.

Solace

Vanish

IRESS - Vanish

Unbound EP

Dusk (Unbound)

2025 Deluxe Bonus Track Edition of Philosophers and Poets 

Dont Give Up

Marked for Death

Furious Angel

Some Heavy Ocean

Living With The Black Dog

Salome

Skin

Malibu (ft. girl in red)

On Dark Horses

Control

Fever Dreams

I Feel Free

Taken from their debut album 'Heavy Eyes' (out 24 August). 

Pre-order 'Heavy Eyes' on LP / CD / Download: http://smarturl.it/heavyeyes

Knocking

"Black Lagoon is the lead single from Still Corners 4th album Slow Air.  With clean toned electric guitar, a driving beat, and the smoky crooning of Tessa Murray, Black Lagoon contains the shimmering atmospherics Still Corners are well known for.  The cinematic video that accompanies the track finds the band on a journey from the desert to the ocean in search of a lost Eden. Filmed over a month in California, Arizona and Texas and shot on a small handheld cinema camera, the band travels across America in a white mustang convertible searching and reaching into the unknown."

Fever Dreams

Emma Ruth Rundle

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