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Buy this is album on the strength of their pre-release, "Be Reasonable". It's got the best shoegazey vibe just absolutely soaked in pacific northwest spirit.
Favorite track: Be Reasonable.
Experience Perseids in its warmest form on classic black vinyl. Top quality professional pressing with black poly-lined inner sleeves. Edition of 400. One lucky pre-order will receive an official test pressing with their delivery. **Please note that USPS media mail rates have recently gone up, this is out of our control**
Includes digital pre-order of Perseids.
You get 2 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
digital album releases April 19, 2024
item ships out on or around April 18, 2024
edition of 400
Purchasable with gift card
$22USDor more
Streaming + Download
Pre-order of Perseids. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
Experience Perseids in its warmest form on gorgeous translucent deep purple vinyl. Top quality professional pressing with black poly-lined inner sleeves. Edition of 100. One lucky pre-order will receive an official test pressing with their delivery. **Please note that USPS media mail rates have recently gone up, this is out of our control**
Includes digital pre-order of Perseids.
You get 2 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
Be reasonable, be reasonable
It’s not inevitable, be reasonable
Between my house and the neighbor’s wall
I am not conscious of my anger at all
I’m not sensitive to false alarms
I believe myself and I’m safe from harm
Be reasonable, be reasonable
It’s not inevitable, be reasonable
Be reasonable, be reasonable
It’s not inevitable, be reasonable
(I loved everyone who hurt me, otherwise how could they hurt me
When the medicine is working, I don’t care if they deserve it)
You may wonder why I stay but I know
If I go I won’t come back
Every time I’ve walked away I know
I’m not coming back
The sun cannot outrun the moon
The night cannot overtake the day
Each moves in its own orbit
And you can’t force it
You may wonder why I stay but I know
If I go I won’t come back
Every time I’ve walked away I know
I’m not coming back
You may wonder why I stay but I know
If I go I won’t come back
4.
Snakes and Ladders
5.
Dark Victory
6.
Black Field
7.
Ship Circles
8.
Untitled
9.
Perseids
about
The return of somesurprises takes the form of Perseids, a full length LP, and their first new music in 5 years. More than just a memorable record, it is unquestionably the band’s finest moment. Led by founding member Natasha El-Sergany, Perseids is not a reinvention of the group’s sound, it is the perfecting of it.
Within seconds of album opener “Be Reasonable,” El-Sergany’s rich, commanding vocal arrives, galactic in size and unearthly in nature. Longtime fans of the project have found themselves entranced by her delivery, as it is a voice that is not only heard but one that seems to inhabit you. The album’s first track feels almost like an incantation as much as a song, and one gets the impression that she may be making a plea to the entire world with it.
Yet even with El-Sergany’s vocals at center stage, the band's instrumentalists don't hold back. Regardless of tempo or feel, the rhythm section is perpetually locked in and the guitar leads ring out energetically. Longtime member Josh Medina compliments the songs with tasteful applications of guitar and synth, while bassist Laura Seniow and drummer Nico Sophiea carry things with deceptively complex grooves. Also featured are two very special guests, composer Jessika Kenney (Sunn O))), Wolves in the Throne Room) and Lori Goldston (Nirvana, Earth) who supply vital contributions to the album.
The Seattle band captures dynamics on these recordings that are frequently missing in contemporary rock, with songs like “Bodymind” and “Why I Stay” featuring giant swells of sound. But just as often as they know when to dial things up, they similarly know when to slow things down. Tracks like the hazy “Snakes and Ladders” and the quietly joyous “(Untitled)” provide the album with natural breathing space between its grander gestures.
It’s a record packed with striking moments, like the unforgettable poem recitation by Jessika Kenney on the album’s title track. The poem, interpreted by Kenney from the original by Hafez, describes the image of meteors in Islamic spiritual tradition, which symbolize the striking down of demons from the heavens in the same way that poetry and art have the power to transform our wounds and struggles into new, stronger narratives. Though written as an ode to this power, Perseids may itself succeed in summoning meteors of its own.
Keen ears might hear traces of Ash Ra Tempel, Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo, My Bloody Valentine, Grouper, Mazzy Star, or even Amon Düül II in the music, but as quickly as the familiar vibes appear, they vanish, dissolving into the singular sound that the band has crafted for themselves. While there are surely elements of shoegaze, psych, and dreampop here, somesurprises are less concerned with genre. With songs this pure, the identification of specific styles becomes irrelevant. Indeed, they are ultimately just drops in the ocean of somesurprises’ sound.
This is the record you’ve been waiting for.
“If the wounds of time’s wheel have drained your heart of life,
Like Hafez, into the demon of grief, throw the shooting star’s arrow.”
Special Guests: Lori Goldston (Cello)
Jessika Kenney (Vocals on Perseids)
Producer / Recording Engineer: Paurl Walsh
Recorded at Crybaby Studios and ExEx Audio
Overdubs Recorded at Paurl's garden studio & in our homes, 2020-2022
Shoegaze ist die Kunst des Dröhnens, doch „Everything Is Alive“ setzt diese Elemente nur sparsam ein. Statt Hall- und Zerr-Sounds aufzutürmen, schäumt die Musik in feinen Bläschen über.
https://tortue.substack.com/i/140348114/slowdive-everything-is-alive-dead-oceans Daniel Welsch
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