Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Monoland - Ben Chantice CD
This isn’t your ordinary shoegaze. This is shoegaze with a twist. And the twist lies with the drums. It’s a clever way to deviate from the shoegaze genre of the past, while maintaining that ever-so-loving distant, isolated, shimmering guitar. Lots of sampled loops make this album some kind of electrogaze.
The poppy vocals will slip up on you. Sometimes not even making a presence until a few minutes in. A beautiful mix of up-close-and-personal lyrics with not-so-personal whispers lies within.
There’s a lot of ambient solitude mixed inbetween songs. Like a train working to get up to speed, some tracks take a while to break out of the intro into a beat.
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