With their dreampop music which includes shoegaze elements, the American outfit Tearwave immediately recalls memories of the music of My Bloody Valentine, Cocteau Twins and especially Lush. This band from
Buffalo
in the
US
state of
New York
unmistakably belongs to that tradition with their own version of shoegaze guitar music with dreamy female vocals from Jennifer Manganiello and really great icy guitarwork with much reverb and delay played by Doug White. The songs on Different Shade of Beauty are more layered than on their debut and better manage to grab the attention as well. Sometimes the guitars even remind of the early works of Dead Can Dance. Highlights are ‘Shattered Fairytale’, ‘Holding On’, ‘The Message’, ‘Falling From Grace’, ‘Love Only Makes Me Weak’ and the great cover version of the The Church song ‘Under the Milky Way. Tearwave is without doubt the best example of a shoegaze band that perfectly translates the atmosphere from those years to our modern time. Tearwave does this by avoiding the genre cliché’s and instead develops an approach of their own. Different Shade of Beauty is an epic album filled with an authentic dreamy darkwave atmosphere and cold shoegaze emotion.
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