“Indie rock/post-rock EP with a raw, loose, and indefinite atmosphere”
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.
“Where nostalgia and melancholy collide in an explosion of 90s alternative, shoegaze and grunge.”
“A distorted boisterous journey through a season in hell via black metal and shoegaze”
“Indie synth dream pop Alice in Wonderland album - Did I tumble down the rabbit hole?”
“'The whole thing feels as if it’s building toward a confession nobody can quite say aloud, so the band just smears it across the sky instead.' -Post-Punk.com”
“90s-tinged alternative, grunge and shoegaze music with blended with modern sound to craft melodic rock songs with big feelings.”