Seven Hour Days - Coast to the Clouds (2022)

Seven Hour Days is Steve Matzkov, an Australian artist known from projects like The High Impedance, Dobson & Fitch and Matzal. This time, he released his new album called Coast to the Clouds via Shore Dive Records and filled with a lo-fi, fantastically engaging shoegaze sounds.

The compositions here are very noisy with this lo-fi kind of guitar noise that makes everything sounds very garage-like and very honest at the same time. There's a solid dose of pedal effects everywhere and the overall vibe of the EP surely makes you think of the early shoegaze era. Especially that the vocaloid-provided vocals are highly psychedelic, often used more as an additional instrument then actually a vehicle for lyrics and these are the parts I appreciate the most. Especially that the whole MBV-like guitar experimentations that fill the speakers are of the best kind, as it is the case in my personal favourite, Stay Away

Coast to the Clouds costs 5 USD.

Check: Stay Away

Country: Australia

Genre: lo-fi shoegaze

Label: Shore Dive Records

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