The most impressive thing about Shivercrash Stellar’s single “Lies Over Toast” is that so much sound and so many dynamics are packed into a single song without any of it stumbling over the rest or crowding out the the other elements. Even when the song sweeps into densely sonic passages of great momentum there’s a great use of space with instruments swirling together in the mix around the vocals. Obvious comparisons of the latter to Paul Banks and Isaac Brock in being focused but with a tiny bit of quaver with the force of emotion could be made and a storytelling style and cadence. But there’s a bit more jangle and maybe the influence of proto-alternative rock bands like Game Theory, Let’s Active and REM. But, if you give the group’s new album Wake Up Delusion a further listen, with synths and maybe someone in the band really took to The Strokes’ This Is It in his or her youthful musical development. Whatever the exact ingredients “Lies Over Toast” takes us on a dynamic and sometimes brooding journey about becoming disabused of romantic notions about those we dare to love. Listen below and follow the Shivercrash Stellar further at the link following.
shivercrashstellar.bandcamp.com
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