Lucy Kruger and Andre Leo come from the South African city of Cape Town and are inspired by music brands such as Spiritualized, Beach House or Mazzy Star, they play, as they call it, dream noise. If this is not enough for a recommendation, I will say that their new album, Lower, is certainly one of the albums that are going to be on people's tongues in this year's final months.
The combination of thrilling, atmospheric and sometimes massive vocals with the eerie music, so much airy as it is noisy, is the key to success of the album. Thanks to the guitar's rawness and the automatic drums' clearness, it sounds as if The Kills were born in California and looked up to the Californian shoegaze scene combining it with their own, unique sound. Medicine Boy can be crazily catchy, as in the single track Water Girl or Diamonds with its surprising, always changing pace.
This gloomy blues is clearly heard also in the ballads playing crucial role on the album. Slow but also lined with very tangible sadness and anxiety (as in the phenomenal For The Time Being), they are perhaps the most interesting part of Lower. And also an important information, the band is about to start its European tour with three concerts in Poland. Highly recommended!
Lower costs GBP.
Check: For The Time Being
Country: RSA
Genre: dreamy blues-gaze
