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* Shoegaze * Indie * Post-Rock * Grunge * Dream Pop * Psych-Rock * Ethereal *
ARTIST..: SIANspheric
ALBUM...: Else
GENRE...: Indie
STYLE...: Shoegaze, Space Rock, Experimental Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Ambient
YEAR....: 1999
LABEL...: Sonic Unyon
COUNTRY.: Canada
PLACE...: Hamilton, Ontario
ENCODER.: LAME 3.100 -V0
BITRATE.: 255 kbps avg
QUALITY.: 44.1kHz / Joint Stereo
SOURCE..: CD
TRACKS..: 7
SIZE....: 135.05 MB
URL..: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sianspheric
- TRACKLIST
1 Planet Hal 4:14
2 10/3/79 11:45
3 Planet Red Naxela 8:06
4 Watch Me Fall (Live) 6:57
5 To Myself (Live) 5:49
6 Shag Shack (Live) 11:31
7 Planet Ag Genav 25:04
Total Playtime: 73:26
They were no Spinal Tap, but SIANspheric didnÆt have to take a backseat to
many when it came to being terminally cursed with rotten luck and line-up
instability. To make an untidy saga short, soon after a magnificent sophomore
album, ThereÆs Always Somewhere Else YouÆd Rather Be, which had the
grandest-sounding guitars and most spellbinding post-My Bloody Valentine
guitar-churn grooves heard in indie-land for ages, they underwent a series of
shocks and imploded in on themselves. Guitarist Sean Ramsey, the only
original member left standing in the outcome, salvaged some rarely and
never-heard-before tapes for the epitaph that is Else ù and fittingly, it
opens up more dimensions to a band few of us had enough of. SIANspheric
prefer their songs to be insinuated by torrents of sound, and the tracks on
Else show them in still more obscure moods. Snatches of drum and bass stumble
in on the windswept ambient pop of the different remixes of "Where the
Planets Revolve" (from their debut, Somnium), as if they opened the wrong
door while looking for the bathroom. The three live tracks run absolutely
counter to the conventional wisdom of how best to engage an audience in a
live setting ù the music is stripped to its essentials of sound, which fairly
buffet the audience who are left to puzzle a song out of the squalling fog
around them. Probably most perverse is their cover of "Shag Shack," a song
first made infamous by hometown Hamilton heroes, Teenage Head. SIANsphericÆs
version is anything but a punkish rave-up ù like their finest moments, itÆs
at once painfully deliberate and brattily anarchic and leaves you with the
final impression that if anyone married the spirit of Syd Barrett with the
ethic of punk, it was probably SIANspheric.
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Shoegaze
is a genre of alternative rock that
originated in the late 80s. The genre is very
difficult to define, and it is even more difficult to evaluate music
within it. Generally, the genre is characterized by its
shimmering vocals, reverberating guitars, and
textural distortion that create
a tranquil, opaque
feeling.
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