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Review: 'Tape Waves'
'Bright'   

-  Label: 'Emotional Response Records/ Fastcut Records'
-  Genre: 'Indie' -  Release Date: '4.6.21.'

Our Rating:
Bright is the fourth album by Tape Waves a duo from Charleston South Carolina of Kim and Jarod Wedlin who have recently signed to Emotional Response records.

This opens in classic shoegaze style with the gauzy and shimmering Tired that has some spectral guitars and sounds similar to The Luxembourg Signal.

Invisible Lines sounds like Luna if Naomi Yang was their singer, its luscious and captivating and has some rather Moe Tucker influenced drumming to help draw listeners in.

Get Back is a 6 minute epic that thankfully has nothing to do with a more famous song of the same name, this has glacial guitars that wash over the listener in waves and the hushed vocals are as textural as much as they are about the lyrics, that are a touch indistinct in the best possible way, making you want to listen over and over to figure out exactly what the song is about.

Muddy is a very clean sounding song that's languid in both the vocal delivery and the playing, like they are struggling to get up at midday, it's very chilled out indeed.

Reverse Rewind relax recline rest, rarely redolent rays roll right through me, as I sink further into the sofa listening to this magically chilled out song.

Eventually comparisons to Mazzy Star or Slowdive have to be made with an album like this one, as the guitars gently caress our ears and the sheer loveliness of it leaves you grinning contentedly.

Waiting For The Night is a very gauzy late night booty call that will involve red wine, candles, incense, silk sheets and a very gentle yet rather intense seduction that will leave you panting and wanting more of the magic that's just happened.

Sundowning is a song for all those folks who love to go on a Sundowning cruise, where they sip large cocktails while watching a shimmering sun goes down over the horizon, as this tune gets as mellow as it can, as if they can barely keep their eyes open, as they've eaten a couple of space cookies too many and are totally blissed out.

Find out more at https://www.facebook.com/tapewaves https://tapewaves.bandcamp.com/ https://emotionalresponserecords.com/


  author: simonovitch

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