chibougue a écrit : ↑

25 déc. 2019, 16:13

Intéressant! J'appellerais ça de l'electrogaze.

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Shoegaze
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Also known as: Shoegazing, Shoegazer
Shoegaze, so named for the motionless and downward-looking performance style of its practitioners, was popularized in the UK between the mid-80s and early 90s. Taking cues mainly from both Dream Pop and Noise Pop, as well as from Neo-Psychedelia and Noise Rock, the typical Shoegaze sound is a wash of instruments blending together. Guitars are typically distorted into droning or feedback drenched textures, and the group itself strives to create a 'wall-of-sound' atmosphere that takes a noisy, distorted approach and/or a lusher, more 'dreamscape' sensation. While vocals and melodies do exist, they are subordinate to the overriding sensation of the song, and melt into the background.

Born out of an approach with a total disregard given to a song’s potential for live performance, Obverse revels in its eclectic, patchwork freedom.

“Cold Comfort” opens with a gentle, eerie plod before latching on to an overdriven My Bloody Valentine guitar tone along with Slowdive’s Rachel Goswell delivering a delicately breathy vocal, and the result is fragile and furious at once. That playfulness comes in as there are over two minutes of cacophonous drum-led distortion and feedback after the track essentially implodes. Nonessential but good fun. “Church of Trees” follows with a buzzy intro that settles into the album’s most soothing melodic passage. The track could’ve gone the route of self-indulgent navel gazing, but instead climbs up layering a heavy beat with a distorted countermelody before rinsing out with a warped denouement.

“In the Garden” is fabulously gloomy synth pop with a low-slung guitar/bass line anchoring flickering Depeche Mode-esque percussive loops.