Crystal Canyon - Yours with Affection and Sorrow (2021)

Earlier this year, my attention was caught by Crystal Canyon's excellent single. I blogged already about them when they released their debut album back in 2018 so I knew what can be expected. And indeed, Yours with Affection and Sorrow makes a great example of classy and noisy dream pop release.

The albums is opened by the most ethereal moment in the very dream pop angelic Pollyanna as, although the whole release is kept in this tone, it is usually more guitar-based with more shoegaze-like fragments. Those come as soon as in the second track, Luminous with its heavy wall of sound in the chorus and Lynda Mandolyn's airy vocals put on top. This is a top-quality shoegaze there. There's quite a lot of mood changing as some tracks are very rock and roll in their dance nature (Boomerang) while others either noisy and heavy (fittingly crushing in Crush You) or simply heading towards indie pop ballads (Tender Waves). The whole album sounds like dream pop played by people who very well know what shoegaze is. And it shows.

Yours with Affection and Sorrow costs 8 USD.

Crystal Canyon - Crystal Canyon (2018) EN

Check: Luminous 

Country: Maine, US

Genre: shoegazing dream pop.

Label: Repeating Cloud

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