CHEATAHS - Chaetahs

Kategorie: CD-Reviews | Genre: Shoegaze | Heft: Jahrgang 2014, eclipsed Nr. 158 / 3-2014 | VÖ-Jahr: 2014 | Wertung: 6/10 | Label: Pias | Autor: SaS


The debut album of the Canadian band with the cruel names is completely in the spirit of the great Shoegaze Helcalids of My Bloody Valentine, who were on everyone's lips again just last year with their first album in over twenty years. Cheatahs also play rock music based on guitar walls, music in whose noise arias the listener is supposed to lose himself, but which, despite all the violence, always seems tender and fragile. But Nathan Hewitt's singing is softer, more melancholic. And the melodies, which try to break through the Wall-Of-Sound, can be described as dreamy. The result is a beautiful contrast between brute force and melancholy. But without the band ever succeeding in climbing the heights of their great role models. At times this debut album seems too disoriented, too arbitrary, the songwriting not yet fully developed. But there's still time.

Top track: Cut The Grass

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