Posts Tagged ‘Straining Hard Against the Strength of Night’

The Blessed Isles

Brooklyn’s The Blessed Isles  have given us the video premiere for ‘Caroline’ the lead track from their debut LP Straining Hard Against the Strength of Night which is forthcoming on Saint Marie Records. Watch it below, its evocative tidal wave of shimmering guitars are sliced by the evocative hazy plaintive vocal harmonies of Aaron Closson. While beats and sensuous baselines erect modernistic dynamics within classic shoegaze sounds, like the expansive soundscapes of early M83 or Slowdive colliding with New Order‘s post-punk tremble and wistful melodies