Crystal Canyon - Crystal Canyon (2018) EN

Crystal Canyon may have borrow a name from God Is An Astronaut's song (from their album "Moment of Stillness") but instead of moody post-rock, they play the catchiest and most rebellious shoegaze you can imagine. 

The whole debut album by the Portland based artists is one big garage concert - with the whole insensitivity and honesty of its sounds and energy pouring off of their music. Plus the airy voice of Lynda Mandolyn that makes Crystal Canyon's music more shoegaze than punk-rock.

The Americans' strongest side is authenticity. It is audible both in ravenous songs ("Silverday") and almost post-rock-drone compositions ("Sleeper"). They are not afraid of take a lively pop song and drown it in the omnipresent noise ("Permeate") either only to seduce the audience with long (for their standards) and extremely atmospheric "Only in a Daydream" and "Sometimes Summertime" after a while. Thanks to all of this, they sound as if they had started the band three decades ago.

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