Pure Phasers - Push (2020) EN

Pure Phasers is a Russian shoegaze-space rock collective that releases music since 2016 when their first demo saw the light of the day. Now it's time fot another EP from them, one that will surely not allow them run away from comparisons with the genre's legends like, mostly, Spiritualized.

Indeed, even the visual side of the release make me think of the Rugby's supergroup's clinically cold album covers. But it's obviously not everything, the short EP gives us a solid dose of great music that audibly references the classic space rock. So we have here dispersed, very unclear vocals and avant-garde, non-obvious compositions (like Time, track based on one word). Then there are complex, multi-layered music arrangements based on guitars that, even when not very loud as in the ballad-like Touch the Sky, still dominate the Russians' music.

And, of course, the whole album is soaked with the outstanding, old-school vibes that make me think of Spiritualized so much that I find it shocking that it's something new and something from the East. The band released an LP earlier this year and I have to catch up with it soon.

Push costs 5 USD.

Check: Touch the Sky

Country: Russia

Genre: old-school space rock

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