KAMNI are from Moscow and play together for eight years already. Their post-punk-esque shoegaze has just found a new package in the form of the album called "Reflections" (or "Отражение" in Russian) and is everything it should be - shoegazingly loud and new-wavingly cold and catchy.
The album begins for good in "Inside" with its dark, cold wave vocal and clear bass line and with the extremely catchy "Spies" with more rock-like way of singing. This shifting nature of vocals is something most intriguing on the album as already the next track, "Reflection", makes a clear shoegaze vocal with backing voices, contrasting with the hard guitar riff.
It gets really post-rock-like during the brilliant guitar-oriented finish of "On the God's Hands", but the real climax would be the album's closing in "I See You Through" that doesn't want to end with its range of psychedelic raptures. The Russians managed to turn this mixture of genres into a really well-done and heavily engaging piece of work.
"Reflection" costs 7 EUR.
