It wasn’t too long ago that I waxed lyrical about Kodaclips’ new single, “Gone Is The Day,” praising their ability to merge the band members’ individual and eclectic musical preferences into a sound that feels like the most recent exciting sonic chapter in Shoegaze’s story. Well, they are back with an entire album of their singular and seductive sound and that meeting of musical tastes is even more prevalent than before.
If that single suggested something rather special was coming our way, even that incredible creation didn’t fully prepare us for the album of the same name. Ten tracks that echo with the shoegaze sound but which also push past any previous boundaries that the guardians and gatekeepers of the genre may have envisaged.
If the opener, “Glaze Over,” blends cavernous walls of noise with more spacious lulls, ones that allow the machine-like motorik energy of the bass line to come to the fore, “Interlude” takes us into a more trippy, floating soundscape. And where “Failure” is a slow-burning, gradually building, rise from sweet sonics into squalling waves of noise, “Surface” is all about untethered, free-form noise experiments.
While the shoegaze sound is prevalent throughout, its clashing and resonant, echoing and sonorous sound forming the rock upon which this album is secured, it is the proto-metal salvos, the ambient drifts, the proggy complexity and the psychedelic trippiness, not to mention the dense atmospheres and sense of anticipation, that make this an intriguing and rewarding experience.
The single may have sent you towards this album, but once there you will find nine more reasons to love this band.
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