poniedziałek, 19 grudnia 2016

The Seismic Waves - Distorted Vision (2016) EN


Have you ever wondered about music underground of Mongolia? About the alternative stage of Ulaanbaatar? About shoegaze played by the heirs of Genghis khan? Most certainly. But I hadn't. I did, however, come across a great reason to do it. The reason is the Mongolian capital city-based The Seismic Waves.

They describe themselves as a blending of post-punk/shoegaze/indie pop/surf pop/post-rock, they sound like dreampopers who brought to their gig too many guitars. The vocal and the music sounds of warm, bedroom notes but the whole thing lies in a shadow of out-of-tune guitars waiting somewhere close. And they catch up already in the second track ("Next, please"). However, the band is at its top playing the most... catchy song - "Cosmic Lover", in which a long intro doesn't prepare us for a thrilling, though delicate melody. This song has a great flow, where every instrument fits and knows its role and creates background that could go on endlessly if it was up to me. The diversity of the album is underlined by the next track - "Slowly" in which distorted vocals and rough guitars make the band one of the best shoegaze groups I heard this year.

We should keep our fingers crossed for TSW's music to spread like real seismic waves far further than just the Middle Asia.

“Distorted Vision” is available for free on Bandcamp.

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