City Gates, The
Age Of Resilence
Third print in 3-panel Digipak of their album originally released in 2021. Working from a shoegaze/dreampop playbook throughout the pages of which they've overwritten those somewhat ethereal tenets with their own more forceful passages, ones lifted from the classicist's post-punk canon, the result is a potently intricate, assured sound that suggests Ride if they'd rode not out of Oxford at the tail end of the 80s but rather Manchester some ten years prior. There is, in short, a funereal touch to this band's brand of elegance, one we found ourselves stalking around in with mystery and not a little beauty tugging at our coattails, gleams of light streaking overhead, a perhaps too poetic way of saying that the sheer quality of The Age of Resilience jumps out at you pretty much everywhere you turn.