- Epic
- Shoegaze
- Alternative rock
- Doomgaze
- Ambient rock
- Avant-rock
Comment: I
lately bought MBV's
Loveless, the most important shoegaze
album to have influenced a thousands of albums and artists
thereafter. By listening to it again, I discovered it is quite
austere and minimalist by its sound and its method. Just the
guitar-based main thread is embellished by electronic effects and
transgressive shifts played on a sampling keyboard. At times the
effect just seems to be autistic. Just the same method though in a
bit different way did Johnny Marr exploit on the two last The Smiths'
albums. The Russian duo Accasari have taken something from it though
providing a bit different scope and imagination. Adjacent to the
case, it might be wrong to consider it nugaze. There are some unusual
corners to surface here and there. It is rather a sort of shoegaze
played under waterfall of resentment. It is slowed down and stoned in
reveries like droning doom rock as if foretelling an impending chaos
and annihilation. As if artistically describing the path of Grim
Reaper coming closer and closer. It is simultaneously frightening and
cozy, simultaneously beatific and morbid, simultaneously ennobling
and gruelling. But you cannot deny the fact Grim Reaper is coming
closer and closer. At times you may feel yourself to be dead already.
