Peel Dream Magazine have shared new album ‘Rose Main Reading Room’ in full.
The LA band’s early work was indebted to shoegaze tropes, but always held a penchant for invention, and a determination to be unique.
Gradually, those woozy guitar effects have been distilled into something different, with their latter work recalling everyone from Stereolab to early Belle & Sebastian, or even Broadcast at their most beatific.
New album ‘Rose Main Reading Room’ is wonderful – rich in its songwriting scope, it moves with maturity and confidence.
The slight Baroque flourishes enhance their central vision, while the band are never cowed by limitations. Broad and ambitious, ‘Rose Main Reading Room’ taps into the spectral vision of Sufjan Stevens, while the carefully layered minimalist motifs often build towards Steve Reich levels of grandeur.
It’s easy to throw reference points at their work, but this ignores the simple truth that ‘Rose Main Reading Room’ probably contains the band’s strongest, most assertive batch of songs to date.
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