Straight from Texas, a new dose of American shoegaze, this time from "American Native". The band have just released their second album, full of entertaining but also atmospheric music.
"Specular Fiction" is an album comprising of several shoegazing songs with characteristic, very much, even for shoegaze, disperse vocal. Light tracks are lined with clear but not so loud after all guitars that manage to produce some great and catchy melodies. One of the best ones would be the one in "Travel Time" or in the almost punk-like guitars in "Made to Blame".
However, the band didn't release the album only to make the audience subtly sway. After some psychedelic short interludes comes a longer one in "I.J.S.T.O.A.T.S.W." that is one chaotic and filled with non-obviousness post-rock music. It divides two parts of the album, the second one is a come back of the entertaining, a bit lo-fi and surf-rock sound.
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