“a jangly cacophonous mess of an album bustling with melody and psychedelic production.”
Reverb-drenched and relentless: The City Gates return with Chimera, a nocturnal post-punk and shoegaze landmark of brooding basslines and cinematic walls of sound. Danila Kozyrev delivers a jangly, cacophonous mess of melody and psychedelic production on Wraith, while j.demar fuses dream pop haze, post-punk energy, and breakbeat velocity into a time capsule of devotion on artifacts. SMIC finds quiet clarity on the atmospheric The Upside (Of Losing Everything), and The Cavemen blend shoegaze textures, alternative rock, and cinematic melancholy on Demo Sessions Vol 2.