Citrus Clouds - Collider (2021)

Citrus Clouds, an Arizona-based three-pieces shoegaze band, showed their second album this March. Following the debuting Imagination from 2016, Collider makes another instance of "music to daydream to" as they describe their own music.

And quite fittingly too. Citrus Clouds' sound is heavier and more rough on the edges than dream pop while also more melodic and less hazy than shoegaze. This nice little niche is well developed into the band's unique sound. Both Stacie Huttleston and Erick Pineda's vocals have the right amount of ethereal dreaminess to them so that it doesn't affect the overall melodies which are pretty significant here. Also the guitar's work seems to me more towards (indie) rock than traditional shoegaze (those riffs in A Pastel Sky!).

The band admits to take inspirations from various artists including Pixies and Stargazer Lilies, but also from colors. Each song was inspired by a different color and it seems to be audible in the way the songs are similar but at the same each has something different in it (like In a Daydream has some of the deep West country-esque vibes while Let Love Find You brings on a vast sea of ethereal backing vocals). And finally, my favourite tracks, Collider and Summer Everywhere, being lined with heavier sounds that so well compliment the dreamy aura of the album.

Collider costs 10 USD.

Check: Collider 

Country: Arizona, US

Genre: shoegaze pop

Label: Lolipop Records

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