Emo is not the only genre that has made a powerful return in
recent years. If anyone reading this knows me on a personal level, they
recognize my unending love for the genre of shoegazing. Loveless is my favorite record ever released, and I absolutely
adore the likes of Slowdive, Ride, and Chapterhouse. Shoegazing has made a similar sort of comeback thanks
to likes of bands such as Nothing
and Whirr (yikes) and I could not be
more overjoyed at this fact.
Baltimore’s Wildhoney
is a newer band that absolutely deserves the attention of your ear drums if you
are a fellow shoegazing fan. The band’s
debut LP Sleep Through It is a
beautiful example of shoegazing and dream pop combined in perfect harmony and
could have comfortably fit on the Creation Records roster. In fact, you could
have told me this release came out in 1992 and I would have believed you.
Frontwoman Lauren Shusterich’s vocals are sugary, sweet, and
beautifully ethereal. Her voice does not blend into the mix but rather floats
gracefully on top which works all too well with the band’s linear songwriting
approach. Sleep Through It is a poppy record but the guitarwork displayed by
both Joe Trainor and Marybeth Mareski add a spiraling wall of thunderously
piercing noise when need be.
If you are catching wind of the shoegazing revival and are
looking for a new band that takes on the art, Wildhoney is the ideal band to
check out.
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