Hailing from Pennsylvania, The Dreamtoday brings us some of noisy and coarse-sounding shoegaze, a subgenre that doesn't always work right, but this time it certainly does. They released their second album called We Won't Survive the Comet and it's such an interesting read (I'd say if that was a book)!
A second album or "a story of delusional grandeur and apocalyptic bliss" as they advertise it. And I'm kinda perplexed by the description. If anything, I'd say the sound is more garage-like or small-stage-big-party-esque than equipped with grandeur. As well as bringing the crunchy sounds than the blissful, synth-heavy shoegaze. I was hesitant to call it grunge as I never know what it means exactly, but I see the band themselves use this tag so, yeah, it's grungey shoegaze. Grugaze.
I particularly like when the band tries adding something else to the slate like when the soothing vocals finally give up lighting up the compositions and get overwhelmed by the noisy guitar sounds as it is the case in Crystal Sky or in my favourite Our Beacon. Or the sort of an interludium but also kinda a cool and dreamy song in through fog. Or the wild Saxophone appearing on Breathe. There is a lot going on in here, probably just as it would be in the final moments before the not surviving the comet situation. Oh, also, the vocalist's called Violet Nowak so cheers to my fellow Polish person!
We Won't Survive the Comet costs 9.99 USD.
Check: Our Beacon
Country: Massachusetts, US
Genre: grugaze (grungey shoegaze)