Seatemples - Down Memory Lane (2017) EN

Drowned in pastel colours cover with attention-stealing and revoking very clear connotations stain of pink, clearly indicates a journey down the memory lane. The music related ones at least. Because the Seatemples quartet from the distant Chile offers a really oldschool approach to shoegaze slash post-punk.

They advertise themselves as a band capable of Reklamują się jako zespół, który potrafi "smoothly move among noise, harmonies, layers of sound and textures". Complicated way of saying what's the most important: it's loud. It's raw. There's massive guitar sound and distracted post-punk vocals sounding both cold and atmospheric. Perhaps the quality of the recording leaves a bit to wish for but as far as a genre with "punk" in its name is concerned, it shouldn't be something to worry about.

The most important thing is the energy and atmosphere of the album. And there's more than enough of those. Slightly different are those tracks featuring a female vocal but most of them are more likely a tribute to the early Jesus and Mary Chain than the denser shoegaze of Slowdive or MBV.

"Down Memory Lane" goes for 5 USD.

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