Drowning in reverb and longing: Montreal's The City Gates deliver a nocturnal, haunting masterpiece on Chimera — pulsing basslines and shimmering walls of sound caught between collapse and transcendence. j.demar sheds all restraint on i remember everything, wrapping reverb-soaked guitars and low-register vocals in a hypnotic, ritualistic dream-pop haze. immortal ebt crafts a devastatingly beautiful shoegaze album about water, while David Von Beahm channels mid-life introspection through his most guitar-driven record yet on Half Life. SLEEP CLUB rounds it out with gleaming post-hardcore and shoegaze guitar lines examining AI's intrusion into everyday life.
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The guitars are still colossal and shimmering, but the songs are more pensive and dark than before.