The Batlord

I definitely don't dislike repetition. Give me something I can't get enough of and you can repeat it however much you damn well please, but my interest in the songs from that album simply wasn't strong enough to make me continue to care past the third or fourth minute.

And I wasn't putting Jesu and Alcest in the same category. But they both use shoegaze in metal.

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The Black Ryder - Buy The Ticket, Take A Ride

More Curve and Soundpool than MBV as far as this genre goes, this is one of the best shoegaze debuts I've heard in quite some time. Despite no particular song really dominating per-se, when taken as an overall experience and aesthetic it is obvious that Aimee Nash and Scott Von Ryper have a fantastic, harmonizing sort of synergy that reminds me of some of the great acid-folk outfits of the early 70's. That being said, Nash herself reminds me quite a bit of dream pop legend Julee Cruise more than anything else. 'Grass' has a beautiful guitar motif running through it that might make it something of a minor stoner rock classic retrospectively, though I'm no soothsayer.

Refreshing album all n' all. I give it a 9/10

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