They say that they play space rock and that they put some new spirit into this veteran genre. The Americans of Sidewave make their music for six years already and have just released their fourth album. Ultraviolet is worth looking a little closer.
The musicians manoeuvre between the extremes of shoegaze - their heavy guitars are particularly heavy and almost stoner-like aggressive and rough while the soft vocals are super soft and delicate. And they approach the whole thing with serious grandeur, just listen to the great In Sadness and try not to shiver when the bass-like drums start to sound in the background. It's also worth saying that Sidewave's tracks are engaging as well very airy hits, and yes, they deserve this title.
It doesn't even matter that right in the middle of the album, at the end of 100k, there's a couple of minutes of misplaced noise, the Americans soon come back to what they do best. And they do that in Vehement and in Can't Be Bad with great style.
Ultraviolet costs 5 USD.
Check: In Sadness
Country: Colorado, US
Genre: heavy shoegaze