“An album about anxiety.”
Reverb-drenched and relentless: The City Gates blend post-punk urgency with shoegaze atmospherics on Chimera, brooding rhythms meeting shimmering walls of sound in a nocturnal landscape of isolation and memory distortion. Danila Kozyrev unleashes a jangly cacophonous mess bustling with melody and psychedelic production on wraith, while j.demar fuses dream pop haze, post-punk energy, and breakbeat velocity into soaring crescendos on artifacts. SMIC strips things back with a slow, atmospheric meditation on survival and clarity, and Yama Uba floats haunting vocals over dreamy ambience in the liminal space between hymns and mantras.
“an immersive psychedelic shoegaze album with ethereal soundscapes and inventive songcraft.”
“Haunting, emotive vocals float over an undulating bed of dreamy and ethereal ambience and laid back beats in this track about acceptance of the unknown.”
“a jangly cacophonous mess of an album bustling with melody and psychedelic production.”
“'Weight of Ease', the 2nd single off of SLEEP CLUB's upcoming debut album, reflects on the cost of a frictionless life, where everything is too easy, and life slowly slips away.”
“A slow, atmospheric alt-indie track about survival, finding clarity, and finally touching down on solid ground.”
“On the critically acclaimed new album 'Chimera,' The City Gates blend post-punk, shoegaze, and darkwave into a reverb-heavy, atmospheric sound driven by pulsing basslines and cinematic intensity.”
“The second chapter in a three-part collection of instrumental reworks and reconstructed demos by The Cavemen”