“Dreamy bedroom shoegaze pop from a Scottish guy living In South Korea.”
Reverb-drenched and relentless: The City Gates blend post-punk urgency with shoegaze atmospherics on Chimera, brooding rhythms meeting shimmering walls of sound in a nocturnal landscape of isolation and memory distortion. Danila Kozyrev unleashes a jangly cacophonous mess bustling with melody and psychedelic production on wraith, while j.demar fuses dream pop haze, post-punk energy, and breakbeat velocity into soaring crescendos on artifacts. SMIC strips things back with a slow, atmospheric meditation on survival and clarity, and Yama Uba floats haunting vocals over dreamy ambience in the liminal space between hymns and mantras.
“Shoegaze/dreampop that sets itself apart from the sound of the Brazilian shoegaze scene.”
“'Annihilation', the closing single off of SLEEP CLUB's 'Bellows' EP is an equally gentle yet pummeling soundscape written after Hurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina.”