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Shoegaze is great. Not a lot of music this simple can keep my attention, but most shoegaze can. Great shoegaze is classic shoegaze OR classic sounding shoegaze. Airiel take the basic formula of sound from classic bands like Slowdive and Cocteau Twins and gives it a modern touch of production in this four EP set. They still keep it loud and dense, but each individual part comes out and is equally noticeable. I'm not music engineer or producer but it seems like a feat. A lot of shoegaze bands don't have particularly good drummers, it's a section that the genre has always lacked on. Airiel takes simple drum lines and rolls with it through the whole song with out changing it up. It's crisp and concise and sounds great.
Kiss Me Slowly has a bouncing bass line over the haze on noisy guitars. Ri is an instrumental that demonstrates how well they can write a drum line for a hazy song. And This is why I Can't Sleep is a sleepy waltz that is rare to find in the genre.
A good band that is moving forward on the classic shoegaze sound, not pulling it back.
Sounds Like
Cleaner hazy dream pop
i bought an album by airiel few years ago and it kind of sucked. I thought it would be good because they tour with Ulrich Schnauss a lot but the album was very basic rock and not so great. Maybe this is different?
ReplyDeleteif it was their most recent "battle of Sealand" from 2007 yea it's not so great, this is their early stuff, it's a lot softer/older sounding
ReplyDeleteyeah it was that album. Sucks.
ReplyDeleteYou're really up-to date with this blog. Puts mine in shame. It's that damn tumblr site that gets all my efforts.
yea i don't know, I just like to write
ReplyDeletealso I couldn't figure out how tumblr works and shit, is it better than this site?
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