Thrushes - Trees

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Artist: Thrushes
EP:
Label: Self issued
Year of Release: 2010
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Reviewed by: charlesmartel on 2012-02-17

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Although shoegaze passed away, at the time sadly unlamented, in the mid nineties, there are a number of bands - mostly American such as Asobi Seksu - who have made a living in the first decade of the twenty-first century resurrecting it. Thrushes are one such band. Now the term shoegaze has been applied, incorrectly, to many different types of music and there are some who insist on giving the label to every musician and band which comes along and puts a fuzz box between the guitar and the amp. Nothing could be further from the reality of shoegaze.

Unfortunately these nu-gazers (as they are often known) do not often stray far from their roots in the UK in the early and mid nineties. "Trees" is a typical such piece from the rather lacklustre EP of the same from the Thrushes. While it is a good song, it could so easily have been drawn from the catalogue of bands like Slowdive or the Pale Saints. The vocals are pushed back and there are layers of dense guitars, distorted and shadowy. The rest of the tracks do not depart much from the formula already established, and the cover of Mazzy Star's "Fade into You" offers little which the original did not have. Had Thrushes been around in 1990 they would have probably had more recognition than they are likely to get now. If they don't start putting some originality into their music I don't really seeing them get very far.

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