Jōetsu Shore - Stranded (2022)

I couldn't find anything on this mysterious project online. Except for the fact that the artist is from a small city in the north of France and that they release a good noise/shoegaze album... every month since last December. I chose Stranded, the May album, to feature on this blog.

I like how energetic the guitar music here feels. For long parts, it's an instrumental music with pedal effects that clearly feel shoegaze-like. The utterly dispersed vocals join a bit later and their withdrawn, background nature makes them extremely atmospheric and dream-inducing. This is the kind of music that is as loud as well as oneiric. The guitar backgrounds can be overwhelming in some parts (as in the great finish of Whatever) but there's also a good deal of nuance in the compositions they are part of like in Strained where the melody is created by distinct bass line while guitars are focused on generating drone-like noise. 

This is this kind of project that deserves more recognition, also outside of Bandcamp. The quality of the noise here is top-notch while the whole compositions remain otherworldly dreamy.

Stranded costs whatever you want to pay.

Check: Whatever

Country: France

Genre: dreamy shoegaze

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