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This final single before they drop their new album, Asylum Harbour, tells you everything you need to know about how much better the world is for having Tombstones In Their Eyes in it.
Psychedelia may have been with us for a while now, say sixty years for argument’s sake, so to find a band this far down that timeline, still finding new places to take the genre, still finding rich new sonic scenes to mine, really restores your faith in music and the resilience of the creative spirit.
“In Your Eyes” is a song on the cusp, walking the liminal spaces between psychedelia and ambient cinematics, shoegaze, and hazy alt-rock, not to mention what was, what is, and what might be again. It is a song bathed in lucid dreamscape light, hallucinogenic heaviness, creative claustrophobia, and otherworldliness, and woven so deftly that the sonics seem as one, a unified sound rather than being drawn from individual instruments.
Raw abrasive backdrops provide the paisley-patterned sonic sea upon which drifting vocal haze ebbs and flows with the tides, and where squalling guitar lines seem to rise and fall at the band’s discretion.
Yes, psychedelia is an established sound, one that has spawned many other scenes and styles – dream pop, shoegaze, heavy ambient, and more – but here, Tombstones in Their Eyes set new benchmarks for what it might be in the musical future. Never has something so ornate and sonically weighted felt so wonderfully refreshing.
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