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The Daysleepers are a quintet of shoegaze / post-punk rockers from Buffalo, New York – a city that any avid shoegazer should now recognize immediately as being the beloved frost-cover drear-lands of Projekt's latest big success – Tearwave. Interestingly enough, Tearwave's own Doug White had a hand in this recording at the production helm. With The Daysleepers making this, their debut effort on Clairecords in “Drowned in a Sea of Sound”, it should be made quite apparent that the Buffalo scene is a beautifully thriving music collective of atmospheric, cold musicians. Prior to Drowned in a Sea of Sound, The Daysleepers had released two EP's which were both largely acclaimed in the post-rock underground and are now sold out.
What The Daysleepers have to offer that isn't readily apparent or available in your other typical shoegaze outfits is their combination of shoegaze with post-rock / post-punk. A lot of the tracks on Drowned in a Sea of Sound are up-tempo with the usual atmospheric effects, and especially if you've come to love and know Tearwave, you will almost assuredly know the sound that you're about to hear. I would consider The Daysleepers as Tearwave's more punk equal or mirror image – The reflection of a band's collective soul that is generally showing of what is kept inside instead of let out in the music. However, on top of this is also the overwhelming influence of new wave legends like The Chameleons and The Cure, while it also retains the general fascination for acts like Slowdive and My Bloody Valentine. There is literally nothing disappointing about this release. Mellow and moving, The Daysleepers take the beauty of the Buffalo outlands and put it into music form. While Tearwave undoubtedly held the throne to the winter months in Buffalo, The Daysleepers are the pictures of Autumn. With the leaves slowly falling and the colors fading, but with still the energy of the summer pulsating into the glow of the warm sun, and the fragrant smells of all the trees have to offer with reds and golds. This one is most assuredly a must have for any shoegaze lover. reviewed by: sage for heathen harvest |
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