Artist : Lovesliescrushing
Album : Shiny Tiny Stars
Year : 2013
Genre : Ambient
Quality : 222kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo
Source : Webshop / FLAC
Playtime : 1h 07m
Size : 110.8mb
Label : Handmade Birds
Catalognr : HBDIS-028
Tracklist:
01. Shiny Tiny Stars 4:31
02. Blur Bright Blued 5:36
03. Gloxina 4:19
04. Luminareal 11:49
05. Snowfell Husher 4:02
06. A Color Gone 6:49
07. Overdose 14:47
08. Shiny Tiny Stars (Starlit Mix) 4:31
09. Brightblued 7:07
10. Gloxina (Fuzz Mix) 4:19
Releasenotes:
Recorded to 4 track between 1991 to 97.
"Lovesliescrushing has impressively reached a career that now spans twenty
years! I only just found out about this band though and so admit to being
utterly uninitiated to their previous sounds. Shiny Tiny Stars is therefore my
first and only exposure to them, so this review does not speak to anything
outside of this album. However, this seven track release sounds anything but
out of date or washed up. Knowing that they've been releasing material for so
long, it's tough to believe that this album could sound as fresh as it does.
But, it sure does! Perhaps they were way ahead of their time. Regardless,
their niche has been described as 'dream pop,' 'ambient,' and 'noise.' I don't
know how much noise I really hear on this record, but 'dream' and 'ambient' are
definitely good descriptors. From start to finish, this is a beautifully
ethereal display that liberates your soul to roam free uninhibitedly. It's like
you're looking up at an expansive sky laid out just for you that rolls on and on
for miles. So many possibilities, so much potential. Exciting. Freeing.
Promising. There's a dark bliss to be found here. Magical, yet peaceful all at
the same time. Any comparisons to My Bloody Valentine that I've read really
fail to capture the essence of lovesliescrushing. The similarity ends at the
shoegaziness of their idyllic textures. The structure of their tracks and the
lucidity of their projection are much more formless in nature. This isn't just
some variation on rock 'n roll like MBV was. No, this is post-rock fine art.
This is bent on elevating you ontologically to a new horizon of being. A
mystifying metaphysical flight from the normalcy of everyday life to something
more intellectual and philosophically grandiose. A wonderful journey that every
lost soul should take. A pilgrimage to other realms of the mind. Handmade
Birds even tops it all off with a touch of class by pressing it to 180 gram
vinyl for durability and listening quality. Novel enough, the first 100 orders
get a limited edition 5.25? Floppy Disk with an exclusive lovesliescrushing
track." - Foxy Digitalis
"The duo known as Lovesliescrushing first came together in the early '90s, when
vocalist Melissa Arpin Duimstra and multi-instrumentalist Scott Cortez decided
to try their hand at the emerging dream pop scene. They began to send out demo
tapes of their bizarre, heavily layered music to labels until Projekt finally
contacted the band about releasing a single. 1994's Your Eyes Immaculate was the
result, a single that so impressed the label that a year later they released the
full-length Bloweyelashwish. The album was a mix of ethereal textures, wordless
female vocals, and repetitive droning that set them apart from many of the
label's gothic artists. Cortez would speak out loudly about how the music was
all formed from guitar sounds, something that he was proud of if only because he
was accused so much of using keyboards on the album. The band was back the next
year with Xuvetyn, another complicated album of lush sounds that moved the sound
further in the direction of experimental music. But the band would drop off
after promoting that album, working on a new studio album for years and years
while still promising that they were together. They finally announced in 2001
that they were ready to edit and release the album, although the year went by
without any news outside of that tidbit. The next year proved golden for fans:
Arpin-Duimstra and Cortez remerged with a third album. Intricate and glossy,
Glissceule was issued on Sonic Syrup in March 2002..." - All Music
"The duo has slowly been releasing work over the past two decades, gradually
smoothing out the distortion and leaving an almost Tim Hecker like mass of
droned texture from ethereal female vocals and once heavily distorted guitar
wash.... crunched shoegaze density of their earliest recordings and the most
recent explorations of their narcotized drone-pop. Brilliant stuff..." -
Aquarius Records
http://wavertone.bandcamp.com/album/shiny-tiny-stars