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The post-rock band smooths out their sound… but that’s not necessarily a good thing.

There’s much that I do like about this album, but it’s in the subtler, more restrained moments.

This comp, though far from comprehensive, focuses on a small slice of time from shoegazing’s heyday.

On Until He Finds Us, Timonium don’t re-write the Book of Slowcore so much as edit it subtly.

This single divorces the two sides of Broken Social Scene’s music and explores each in greater detail.

I’m glad I’m not the only one who wrote such doomed poetry in study hall, and it warms my heart to finally hear it put to such exquisite music.

Many of the songs on the release have a theatrical feel to them.

Featuring Printed Circuit, Sweet Trip, Entre Rios, Boyracer, Randomnumber, Manual, and more.

One of the more substantial shoegazer offerings I’ve heard in a long time.

Skywave offers an absolutely exhilarating ride through dreampop’s rawer, wilder side.

When you think you have the album figured out, the band seems content on frustrating your expectations.

Much like the slowly building nature of its songs, I found my appreciation inexorably growing with each listen.

Simply put, Preserve, Volume One is a stellar comp, solid in every regard.

Even the most starry-eyed of songs are coated with a thin layer of wistfulness and nostalgia.

This CD surpassed any preconceptions I had concerning how a hardcore band should play or operate.

The Way Sect Bloom have really carved out a unique niche for themselves, and they’re calling plenty of attention to it.

Not so industrial to turn away goth fans and not so goth as to turn off industrial fans.

The majority of the compilation’s 16 songs have a techno-industrial flavor.

A true treasure at heart with anyone who enjoys the sounds of industrial and electronic music.