Slow Signal Fade, The

Steady

The Slow Signal Fade has layered many influences into the groups guitar-soaked music, including but not limited to the Cranberries, Cat Power, British shoegazer and space-rock. The Los Angeles bands debut full-length is a multi-tiered, slow burn that incessantly swells to a fiery crescendo, propelled by gauzy guitars and Sri Lankan born singer Marguerite Olivelles vaporous voice - the best thing in alternative music since Hope Sandoval. The extensive wall of sound arcs with great effect: delayed guitars ebb and rise, songs fluctuate from open-spaced ambiance (frail piano-acoustic guitar ballad "Counterpunch") to epic structures. The nearly 10-minute "At Least Were Dancing" moves from a My Bloody Valentine stratagem to an expansive drone Jimmy Page would appreciate. Unearthly "Thats a Long Way Down" is a hallucinatory, wired journey as distinctively solar-inflected as anything Spiritualized ever concocted. Steady was easily one of the finer local-LA releases of 2006, and an album that sounded better the more often and louder it was played.

Price
€ 14.25
Genre
Format
CD - 1 disk
Release date
01-01-2020
Label
Item-nr
557819
EAN
0678277125421
Availability
In stock
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TRACKS

Disk 1

1. DEPARTMENTAL5:18
2. TIME MACHINE4:19
3. TBA3:55
4. AT LEAST WE'RE DANCING9:18
5. RELAPSE4:27
6. COUNTERPUNCH3:28
7. MARY LOU SAW BIRDS4:45
8. THE SAME SONG6:44
9. THAT'S A LONG WAY DOWN6:22