Vibrato 10

Psyclones of Sound

Music from the Great Plains and Greats Lakes areas of the US. That's a lot of territory, so I'm sure to have missed some good stuff. Coming from what is often called the Heartland, it is not surprising that some of the songs have a distinctly American feel to them. --NWshoegazer

1. Jessica Bailiff - If We Could (Kranky) from the 2006 release "Feels Like Home"
2. The Violettes - Blue Hearted Fool (self-released) from the self-titled 2004 release
3. For Against - Stranded in Greenland (Words on Music) from the 2005 re-issue (with bonus videos) of the 1988 release "December"
4. Stella Mora - Daguerreotype (not yet released) --Someone needs to sign this band
5. Oblisk - Ancestors (not yet released)
6. STAR - Blonde Sound (not yet released) from something to be released soon, hopefully. In the meantime, if you don't own "Devastator", you should; it is one of my favorite CDs from 2007 --The way that Shannon Roberts' solo projects remind me of Lori Carson makes me wonder if STAR might not be the answer to the question: what might The Golden Palominos have sounded like had they dabbled in Shoegazing?
7. Rainer Maria - Burn (Grunion) from the 2006 release "Catastrophe Keeps Us Together" --I am sorry to hear that these guys are no longer together, especially since I missed their last show in Portland because the venue that booked them has a crap reputation
8. Lab Partners - Tidal Wave (Reverb) from the 2005 release "Wicked Branches"
9. Ether Aura - I Wasn't Her (not yet released) from the forthcoming "Semblance" EP --They seem to be moving away from Shoegazing, but still sound great; plenty of Goth-tinged Shoegazing on the 2005 and 2007 releases "Crash" and "Before We Could Sing"
10. The Emerald Down - Sometimes the Sun Shines (Honest in Secret) from the criminially out of print 2002 "Aquarium" EP --How a band this good could spend their days toiling in obscurity before sinking into oblivion is beyond me.


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