There's few artists who can create shoegaze's noisy and thick atmosphere right while working solo. One of them certainly is Animal Ghosts who, after his EP last December, released the fifth album in his career and it's all we love about his music.
The multi-layered noise of shoegaze balanced with extremely dispersed vocals is what we are here for. And the Portland artist delivers, as always. I loved his last EP and he doesn't seem to go beneath a certain quality level. Which is very high if I can add. The guitars here feel like proper shoegaze - not only because of the noise they generate, they feel like a love letter to the classic shoegaze of the 90s. I compared him with Ceremony last time I posted about his music here and it still feels that the level of the noisy fun is similar. The guitar effects (like the ones in the title track Wallow) certainly feel nostalgic but there are some quite unique parts like the drums solo in Sugar. However, the main thing about this album is showing how catchy a noisy shoegaze can be.
Wallow costs 7 USD.
Check: Wallow
Country: Oregon, US
Genre: classic shoegaze
