Club AC30 レコード& CD

Review: Air Formation are Brighton-based shoegazers who are back now with their sixth album, a self-titled record on Club AC30, that is inspired by their love of pioneering bands like Flying Saucer Attack, Spiritualized and The Jesus & Mary Chain. It is a collection of tracks drenched in droning keys, heavy feedback, delayed guitar loops and heavenly vocals that float up top above the noise. It takes in the likes of the blissful opener 'Pressure Drop', the sweeping crescendos of 'Only So Much Light', shimmering and swirling melodies on 'I Don't Want To Talk' and 'Crashing Out' and plenty more.

Review: Put it down to geographical isolation or simply a more vivid imagination that most, but this Russian troupe had already set their stall out as an outfit fit to take shoegaze and dreampop paradigms and reinvent them in innovative and startlingly luminous style. 'Grandfeathered' however is another quantum leap again, as Pinkshinyultrablast lurch into the unknown with a sound equal parts earthbound heaviness and sky-kissing rapture. Yet the beauty of this record is that it generally sounds like a step forward for a genre oft mired in retrospective reverence - if a multiplication sum of the ethereal and emotional strains of Sigur Ros and the glacial electronica of M83 sounds like your poison, look no further,