Sianspheric - Space Rock/Shoe Gaze Brilliance
These guys from Toronto, Ontario deliver a terrific Space Rock (Pink Floyd) - Shoe Gaze (My Bloody Valentine) cross-over sound that is pure brilliance.
Check the accolades:
"Recalling both the mind-bending guitar work of Spacemen 3 and the more cohesive concoctions of Swervedriver, SIANspheric make a fine new shaman in the discipline of Space Rock. The trick is coagulating these elusive, quicksilver-like riffs into something solid, and this band has the technique mastered. Sure, the random anticipatory bleeps and oscillations soar through a netherworld of NASA-sponsored feedback experiments as you'd expect, but holding it together are thick, detuned chord progressions and warped, looping drum beats. In other words, SIANspheric have songs. That they've escaped huge recognition is not only peculiar, but downright tragic." – ROLLINGSTONE.COM
“a true testimony to the colourfully experimental mood music they’ve made in the last ten years" – EXCLAIM!
"the country's premiere shoegazers" – Ryan Watson, WESTENDER, Vancouver BC
"huge echoey hazes that recall early Verve, songs recalling the liquid beauty of Slowdive, drones worthy of Spacemen 3 and massive piledriving walls of distortion that could be Loveless run through four or five more Big Muffs" – CHROMEWAVES.NET
"If you find yourself missing those classic sounds of Spaceman 3, My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive, you must check out this album. Not only do they build upon these bands, they take the sound to places never thought or dreamed of before." – MYSTERYANDMISERY.COM
Pitchfork review (a little harsh perhaps) can be read here.
Download:
The Stars Above MP3 (2005 - Somnium)
Bonus!
Sonic Unyon Sampler Available Here (Contains Watch Me Fall - Sianspheric)
Stream here to listen:
All On Standby (1998 - There's Always Someplace You'd Rather Be)
10 3 79 (1999 - Else)
Heroes (David Bowie Cover) (1998 - Demo)
Purchase Sianspheric's albums on Emusic.
Sianspheric Homepage
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