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Modern Shoegaze Classic

Todd Myers | Lawrenceville, GA | 08/12/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The debut album from Thrushes is surely to become a modern shoegaze classic. From the opening song Aidan Quinn you are instantly hooked by Anna's voice and the blissful guitar noise. Going straight into a Heartbeats which conjures up Jesus And Mary Chain similarities. Ghost Train reminds me of riding a wave and having the wave crash on top of you with the guitar noise, you are under the water trying to get to the surface and once you come up for some air another wave of guitar noise crashes in on you pulling you under. The Hardest Part is the final track and a very good name for the end track, as once it is over The Hardest Part is waiting for more from this band. A very solid album from beginning to end. If you like bands like Jesus And Mary Chain, Sonic Youth, Slowdive, Catherine Wheel, Ride, Lush, or any shoegaze bands in general it is well worth purchasing this album.."

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trampslikeus | 04/09/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Venerating Phil Spector as the patron saint of sonic emotion, the premise is strikingly simple. Rock music should be beautiful. Harvey's guitar work elevates grand canyon reverb to high art. More canvas than skeletal structure, its wall of sound is huge and enveloping. Giving form to these dreamscapes are Conner's simple, pretty vocal lines, which she colors with clean, clear guitar picking. Out of the sonic swirl, Tracy manages to distill a bass line somewhere between rock-steady groove and the root melody of a lullaby. Her parts construct a visible road map for drummer Davis to effortlessly meander through. With bells and shakers sitting on a table beside the hihat, his drumming is more orchestral than rock'n'roll and is peppered with beautiful triangle and xylophone melodies.

On Sun Come Undone, their debut full length, Thrushes craft gorgeous noise pop and swirling dream rock. Opening with the cavernous drumming of "Aidan Quinn" into the revved-up, fuzzed out Jesus And Mary Chain-esque "Heartbeats," and carried through the nods to Deadcan Dance in "Loyalty" and haunted claps of guitar thunder on "Ghost Train," to the final feedback soaked fallout of "The Hardest Part," this is the sound of blood on blood.

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Pop-Sensible Radio-Friendly Experimental Indie Dream-Noise

Brian Ball | Oakland, CA USA | 07/16/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Each beautifully-crafted song on this Baltimore-based 4-piece band's debut album, Sun Come Undone is born, lives and dies in no more than 4 minutes at a whack, while still managing to take the listener beyond the everyday, into an expansive realm of intrigue and `mystere.' Featuring fuzzed out `grungy' sounding guitars that seem to be hailing from the deepest depths of space and seamlessly intertwine with the reverberated echo coming from within the soul of the (well beaten) drum kit, the opening songs of Sun Come Undone are nothing short of masterful in performance and production and make for a pleasant entry into this 41 minute `escape from reality.'



"Into The Woods" presents one of the BIGGEST sounds we've heard on a record in the last year or so and is simply too good for words... (yes this is an album review, and we understand that you want words... ...so here they are!) ...Anna's simultaneously soothing yet shrieking vocals boast perfection of her art as they are belted out in perfect time with the rising and falling of her bandmate's careful attention to the average listener's short attention span, and allow us to have found ourselves in a multilayered daydream of 1000 shades of the color grey that shatter and fall into uniquely shaped patterns across our minds.



Next up in the mind-shattering rollercoaster ride of emotion and reflection known as Sun Come Undone, we see "Flying," which can be simply described as `militant meets mindblown.' Thrushes' drums could easily be personified as human emotions, as cymbals drop in like tears to the onset of frustration's release culminating into a full-on emotional rage that ever so gently dies down--only to be reborn again as the re-imagination of itself as seen through a mandala stuck in a perpetual loop enveloping the outside within...



As we progress through the later tracks on Sun Come Undone, we are treated to several other diamonds in the rough--one being the masterfully written "Wake Up," which has a clearly defined beginning-middle-end and boasts qualities that are "mathematical in formation and methodical in delivery," and emotive vocals that soothe and sear even the farthest removed of listeners.



As the album comes to a close, we find it quite difficult to not let it have another spin around, as Thrushes have become to our ears much like that of candy to the child, like caffeine to our working class and like lies to our governing bodies--necessary!



"Pop-sensible radio-friendly experimental indie dream-noise"--Brian Ball, Director of Music & Talent"