Gnoomes - MU! (2019) EN

Perm-based Russians making music as Gnoomes must be considered as already well-established name on the Russian shoegaze-and-around scene. This year they released their probably most mature album yet called MU! which makes us fall in love for a couple months already, finally also here.

The band play "a potent mix of psychedelic stargaze, kraut techno and kosmiche pop", but they wanted to make their newest album "more live and less electronic" to "sound more dynamic". Recorded in an old post-soviet radio broadcast station, MU! inspires with its unique sound. It's not just another album filled with a blending of shoegaze and dream pop, but there's more of the experimental, coldwave and space trips (as in the super interesting Irmie).

And even if some tracks seem to be more conventional, just like Glasgow Coma State, with time they develop into industrial-post-rock compositions. Exactly this industrial, drawing a bit from the club atmosphere pace in form of fast and nervous beats is the album's characteristic trait. Perhaps  the most traditional, old-school, early-Slowdive-esque shoegaze can be found in How Do You, but even the fat hat the Russians saved it for the very end seems to prove that they'd rather work in shoegazish experiments instead.

MU! costs 6.99 GBP.

Check: Glasgow Coma State

Country: Russia

Genre: krautrock shoegaze

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