Showing posts with label ulrich schnauss. Show all posts
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Friday, December 16, 2011
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010
REVIEW: Soundpool - Mirrors In Your Eyes
Two words; "Shimmering Inventiveness". Ahh, Soundpool, one of my favorite Shoegaze acts has returned. With each album, "Mirrors In Your Eyes" being their third, the band re-invents it's sound all while maintaining a familiar formula. On their latest offering Soundpool take a shot at what the band dub's "Disco Gaze". What? Another new genre?? Yes! I do believe it is! But seriously, I couldn't imagine strapping a better title on this one. Think Ladytron does Shoegaze..
Blaring guitar melodies, distortions-a-palooza, filtered keyboard sounds (some air-y synths & some dancey arpeggiations), female vocals as sweet as can be with a few male vocals thrown in as well, and the bounciest bass lines I've heard since !!!'s "Louden Up Now". "Mirrors In Your Eyes" delivers. It has something for everyone. Well everyone into great music that is. The parts that are Shoegaze tend to shine a little more than the Disco parts, but only slightly. Honestly, I struggle with which parts to focus on, the dancey parts are super catchy, but the distorted guitar fx are just soo damn good. Either way I'm quite confident that you will find something amicable to your taste buds within each and every track on "Mirrors In Your Eyes". And, if Soundpool continues on their chosen path with re-inventing themselves on each new release they may change Shoegaze/Dream Pop music as we know it.. Marke my words, these guys are only gonna get bigger and bigger.
One of 2010's best Gaze albums for sure. Also one of the best Pop albums I've heard in a bit. Recommended for fans of MBV, Slowdive, Ulrich Schnauss, Goldfrapp (sort of), Asobi Seksu, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, and anyone else that falls along the lines of those bands. Yep, you should probably buy this and then after you finally get over the obsession seek out the rest of this bands impressive catalogue. Thanks for sharing Soundpool, keep up the great work!
Standout Tracks: All (It's hard to be picky here..)
Monday, April 26, 2010
If only I lived here..
Free album, Free booze, amazing Gaze?? Sold. (yeah, I know. "Best Flyer EVER"..)Monday, April 5, 2010
REVIEW: A Setting Sun - Flower Garden Of Doom
7 out of 10A Setting Sun is a project from Moodgadget's Jay Bodley. The music within is an alluring combination of Ambient drones with minimal IDM scratched surfaces. "Flower Garden Of Doom" is sure to be pleasing to any fan of Boards Of Canada, Ulrich Schnuauss (Far Away Trains Passing Away), Brian Eno, Fennesz, and maybe Wisp. I only wish I could feel this warm while at rest all the time.
Even though "Flower Garden Of Doom" is A Setting Sun's third release, it comes off as a thesis for the project's name. The overall mood and feeling I get from this release is laying in a grassy patchy somewhere outside soaking in the warmth of the sun while life around me slowly morphs and evolves. Droney atmospheres that are so warm you may want to take off clothing to cool down. Clicks, cuts, white noises, and scratches that give you the feeling of tiny little creatures forming life around your motionless body. And Simple guitar melodies, that are only present when needed, give birth to the concept that nothing is meaningless in your current state. You are witnessing microbial evolution at it's finest. You will simply lay there and soak in everything around you. You are not dead, you are not thoughtless, you are at one with everything.
This is organic/hazey electronic mood music/good sleepy time music, especially if you're a fan of taking naps outdoors.. You're getting warmer now.. Recommended.
Standout Tracks: Sun Hammer Pounding, Raspberry
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
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