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Soundpool Featured New Release
Dichotomies + Dreamland
Forming in 2005 Soundpool is a NYC-based 5 piece shoegaze, space rock, audio/visual act with sweet girlie vocals, saturated guitar sounds, lush synth arrangements and a danceable driving rhythm section. Soundpoolís first album, On High, reached the top spot on the Tonevendor charts for well over a month in late 2006 ñ Soundpool has since quietly placed themselves in the center of the new shoegaze/dream pop movement of music, sharing the stage with great acts: Robin Guthrie, Ulrich Schnauss, A Place To Bury Strangers, Mahogany, Asobi Seksu, Spectrum, Star, Kyte, Auburn Lull and Butterfly Explosion to name a few. Soundpoolís second full length album Dichotomies & Dreamland is in many ways the classic psychedelic album in a post electronica age. Conceptually, the album can be broken into two partsÖ the conscious and the subconscious. Stylistically, the album follows a thread that perhaps starts in the mid-sixties when pop artists of the day started taking hallucinogens and making records that were a bit more eclectic, cerebral and daringÖ pushing the boundaries of what a rock & roll record could be. Dichotomies & Dreamland was made in the spirit of that sort of artistic attitude but itís not deliberately of even necessarily retro per seÖ in fact it is quite modern in an indie sort of way. Elements of Shoegaze, Dreampop, Space Rock, Psychedelic and Electronic are all present. Over a year and a half in the making... we hope you enjoy our latest body work! "Soundpoolís drone and roll has had my ears for some time. Shoegaze is a genre always in need of new blood, and few new artists match Soundpoolís vocal delivery and sonic awareness. While their drone teeters on the tip toes of instability, itís Kim Fields vocals that seamlessly hold the chaos together." óMusicisnotdead. "This sounds great! Of all the newer stuff I was able to come across, I especially like what you guys are doing." óJohn Cofer, Music Director WTBU. ìI walked off Orchard St. on the Lower East side into Pianos, waded my way through the sea of heads and walked right into the ìExploding Plastic Inevtitableî... the multimedia sensory blast definitely conjured up the Velvet underground imagery but Soundpoolís sound was closer to early 90ís Stereolab. The crowd was digginí the impressive performance... this was one of the best sets Iíve seen in a while by a band that could be labeled ìshoegazeî". óFiddle While You Burn "When Lush wrote Sweetness and Light at the height of shoegazing, I wonder if they had anticipated Soundpool, the latest act to breath life into a fondly missed genre? Cosmic, phased guitars combine with breathy, angelic vocals and sequenced programming. Yet beneath the swirl of effects beats a heart of pure pop." óBrett Spaceman, EVILSPONGE.

Format: CD Album
 
Label: AloftCatalog: ALOFT02Origin: USAListed: 2008-03-22
Activity Status: IN STOCK - Ready To Ship   Price: $12.27

 
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