Artist: Dreamgaze
Title: Sound Colour
Genre: Indie / Electronica / Shoegaze
Release Date: 17th September 2009
Label: Aetheria Music
Album Review
DREAMGAZE is a project of Fuchsia Angel of BELLA LUNE and Michael Wooley, formed in 2008 when the two met in an internet radio station chat room. Despite being hundreds of miles apart (Phoenix and Detroit) they soon began to record their debut album ‘Sound Colour’ in two separate studios and finally it came to life in autumn 2009. This summer the band released their first music video for the song ‘Wasteland’.
It’s hard to avoid the comparison between DREAMGAZE and BELLA LUNE as the bands share marvellous Fuchsia’s vocals and their music definitely has something in common. But DREAMGAZE is much dreamier, airier and even more atmospheric. Crystal clear voice of Fuchsia in the opener ‘Sincerity’ invites us in the ethereal world of colourful sounds. Leisurely guitar currents, welling out of this track, flow through the entire album, sometimes speeding up a little bit, sometimes slowing down. In the catchy melancholic ballad ‘Graveyard Kiss’ cold guitars build vast textures upon rather dark electronic background. Abrupt bass-line backed by the buzzing guitar sound walls arouses a feeling of disturbing expectation or even a kind of foreboding in ‘Shadow Walk’, while ‘Soft Places’ calms down being mellow, relaxed and gauzy.
The prelude of ‘Wasteland’ evokes an abandoned picture of the borderless prairie at sunrise, resembling a landscape from a western, to give birth to a feeling of solitude and desolation, supported by atmospheric riffs chasing you till the song ends. “What have we become / slowly dying in our wasteland?” - Fuchsia asks in a subtle angelic voice and this question remains open for almost everyone in our society where people are forgetting how to accept each other. ‘Wasteland’ is certainly one of the highlights of the album along with ‘She Whispers Silently’, the most dynamic track, distant haunting rhythm section of which sustaining edgy riffs conveys a desperate cry for help. The closing ‘Weeping Willow’ returns serenity and smoothness to the flow of DREAMGAZE music. ‘Sound Colour’ is a fabulous trip to a placid dreamland coloured in pastel shades of dawn and sunset. An excellent, solid and fluent album, perfectly fitting for relaxation and contemplation!
Tracklist
01. Sincerity
02. Dark Slow Deep
03. Stargazer
04. Graveyard Kiss
05. Before Ruin
06. Shadow Walk
07. Soft Places
08. City Of Lies
09. Faces In The Rain
10. Wasteland
11. She Whispers Silently
12. Weeping Willow
Line-up
Fuchsia Angel: Vocals, Synth, Additional Guitars, Drums, Production
Michael Wooley: Guitars, Bass, Synth, Drums
Kal3id: Additional production
Website
http://www.myspace.com/dreamgazeband / http://www.dreamgazemusic.com/
Cover Picture
Rating
Music: 8
Sound: 8
Extras: -
Total: 8 / 10
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