candy claws
 

concept album about the mesozoic era.

candy shoe gazey dream type stuff.

its good mang.

I picked this up today, (Actually, I ordered it, since the only legit music store in my area did not have it) so I downloaded it as well. Good call, man. Seriously, I rarely buy an album by a hitherto unknown artist without listening to quite a bit of it first. But I read your post this morning, Spotified the motherfucker at work for a bit, and ordered it on my way home.

Very few of these **neo-shoegaze... bands have much to offer, beyond making shoegaze itself sound like a dull and mind numbing concept. Once in a while, a band like this comes along and does something inventive and exciting with the template, and I think this album is a great example of that.

** (I wish I had a better name for it... I want to say "navel-gaze," because people are too fat to even see their feet, let alone "gaze" at them without the assistance of a mirror. Phone-gaze would work, but sounds clunky. Anyway, forgive me)

What makes it so great for me is that they got rid of the damn cymbals which just make my tinnitus screech louder at this point.

They take their chord progressions in unexpected directions... it sounds like your average trebled-out shoegaze, and then they bring in a change that doesn't follow the formula. Young Prisms also did this, before they decided they just wanted to be the ducking Cocteau Twins, and nothing else. (Yawn)