Vast Asteroid - Vast Asteroid (2017) EN

Everyone knows what California is for the genre of music that collide on the orbits of shoegaze and dreampop. The new star on this constellation has just been claimed by a trio James Poulos, Mark Reback and Mimi (indeed) Star, or Vast Asteroid. Their first self-titled LP has been released just days ago but you can already tell how full of stars their spacerock is.

The album is a mixture of dense, guitar music with a very go-ahead approach to shoegaze. Although the band came from this direction, both the way they build up their tracks and the surf rock or maybe just rock way of singing give their music this top shelf catchiness. It is clearly visible in songs like  "Vivid Dream" in which the guitars are far from the gloomy power of shoegaze and the vocal from dreampop whispering.

Everything I wrote loses importance with the last track on the playlist, the 15-minutes-long "Spacegaze". As the title promises, Vast Asteroid take us to the space of guitar sounds, backgrounds and amazing subtle keys only to drown in the ocean of noise at the end.

"Vast Asteroid" costs 7 USD.

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