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 releases
“an immersive psychedelic shoegaze album with ethereal soundscapes and inventive songcraft.”
“a record detailing the journey through some particularly trying times; hope it helps / heals”
“Haunting, emotive vocals float over an undulating bed of dreamy and ethereal ambience and laid back beats in this track about acceptance of the unknown.”
“a jangly cacophonous mess of an album bustling with melody and psychedelic production.”
“An experimental rock album delving into the depths of shoegaze with hints of black metal.”