Presents for Sally - Look Skyward And Take It On (2021)

Presents for Sally is a British band that is inspired by "1980's/early 1990's guitar music but always manages to stay unique". The Exeter artists have already 4 long plays in their discography (including a great collaboration with one of my favourite shoegaze projects 93MillionMilesFromTheSun), the fourth one being this year's Look Skyward And Take It On.

There's absolutely no doubt about their inspirations. The album is filled with noisy but also lively and carefree-sounding songs of lower audio quality that could as well be taken from the first shoegaze/noise rock wave's albums, they remind me mostly of the early Ride but there surely is more in the inspirations jar here. There's everything that was back there - and it's a good thing. The dispersed and not very clear and loud vocals sing simple but melodic songs while the backgrounds present this oldschool, noisy psychedelic rock (in oppose to the modern, overwhelming noise that is very often the thing now) that feels light and genuinely joyful. And the lo-fi ambiance makes it all very authentic.

Sometimes, the British create also this exceptionally psychedelic noisy haze that goes and goes on (and should go on forever) that is so very mesmerizing. It's most noticeable in the album's longest track When We All Move Away and I must say, this is what I like here the most.

Look Skyward And Take It On costs 3.99 GBP.

Check: When We All Move Away

Country: UK

Genre: original noise rock

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