Album: Sparkler
Year: Late 2009
Genre: Shoegaze, Dream Pop
Country: U.S. (Texas)
With a band title which is an obvious pun on the drummer for The Beatles, this album is a shoegaze staple. Noisy, textured guitars, ethereal vocals subdued beneath walls of jangly noise, pounding drums, and killer bass lines to hold it all together. If you really liked the glide guitar, and dance oriented drum lines from 'Soon' by My Bloody Valentine, you will like this album. The vocals are a lot more in your face than most of the albums in the first wave, but they are definitley not a vocal led band. All the instruments work as a collective. The sound is not particularly too noisy, but textured. It flows together very well.
Overall, this album is a fine example of how a musical genre spawned in England can be done with style overseas.
My Rating: B+
Tracklisting:
1. Swirly
2. Starrsha
3.Some Kind of Sad
4. Down on You
5.Sweet Girl
6. In Love
7.Summer Time
8. Rats Live on Evil Star
9.Your Town
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