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- Date Released: May 13, 2008
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Alternative, Indie Rock
- Label: Clairecords / IODA
Ahoy! Nu-Shoegazers chart the stormy seas on their latest outing.
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We Say...
Recent shoegazer types have been quite taken with matters aquatic. Airiel offered up mermaids and conflict in Sealand, while Tearwave opted to weep an entire watery swell. The Daysleepers clearly don't want to be left out and, after a couple of well-received EPs, have also looked to the ocean to inspire their debut full-length.
This makes sense really, because the glimmering underwater world is a perfect companion for these purveyors of fluid dreampop. Delay-driven antics and mythical lichen-dwelling beasties make happy seabedfellows, at least if the shimmer and thrust of "Release the Kraken" are anything to go by. And the creature connections continue with "Tiger in the Sea," whose cliffside-erosion guitars do indeed suggest a large feline thrashing amidst the undertow. Both tracks owe much to the Daysleepers' secret weapon — unexpectedly vigorous percussion, which ensures that the more restless of these songs have considerable propulsion.
There are calmer shores too, of course. "The Secret Place" is a treasure cave of synth swells and half-buried sparkles, while "Summerdreamer" gradually blends its male-female vocal interplay into one lengthy, lingering sigh of contentment. Immersion awaits in these depths. Dive in and bliss out. -
They Say...
Upstate New York indie rockers the Daysleepers aren't kidding with that album title: not since the shoegazer heyday has a band been so intent on immersing the listener in veritable oceans of reverb, echo, and effects pedals. Apparently raised on a steady diet of My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive albums, the Daysleepers have that turn of the '90s sound down cold, but like many of the bands who found themselves on the shoegazer bandwagon, their debut full-length reveals a fatal flaw. Once the listener mentally strips away all the things that makes these ten songs sound really, really cool, the songs themselves are revealed to be pretty weak, neither melodically nor lyrically memorable beyond the pretty but shallow surfaces. On the other hand, shoegaze bands tended to be about little more than the surfaces (there's a reason why the vocals were usually set way back in the mix, or why Liz Fraser usually sang in a made-up language, so that the vocals would be treated as just another instrument), so that's not necessarily a flaw for die-hard fans of the style. And that demographic will be so enamored by the sound of songs like the rushing "Megatron Supernova" and the aptly titled "Lovesparkles" that thoughts of depth or stylistic redundancy will be moot. Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream, as someone once said.
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| 01. |  |
Release the Kraken |
3:53 |
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| 02. | |
Twilight Bloom |
4:37 |
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| 03. | |
Distant Creatures |
3:30 |
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| 04. | |
Summerdreamer |
3:11 |
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| 05. | |
Tiger In the Sea |
5:04 |
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| 06. | |
Megatron Supernova |
2:59 |
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| 07. | |
Space Whale Migration |
3:26 |
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| 08. | |
Lovesparkles |
3:20 |
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| 09. | |
The Secret Place |
6:52 |
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| 10. | |
Run |
4:09 |
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10 Total Tracks, 41:01 Total Length
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