{"id":39811,"date":"2006-06-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/a-shoreline-dream-ep\/"},"modified":"2006-06-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-22T00:00:00","slug":"a-shoreline-dream-ep","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/a-shoreline-dream-ep\/","title":{"rendered":"A Shoreline Dream (EP)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Shoreline Dream is the new project from Drop The
\nFear’s Ryan Policky. Though prominently guitar-based, this band
\nstill inherits Drop The Fear’s layered psychedelic style and a good
\npart of its music sounds like a cross between Slowdive and Cocteau
\nTwins.<\/p>\n

This four-track debut EP shows a preponderant
\ninfluence of the alternative music scene — both British and
\nAmerican — of the late 80s\/early 90s. The very first cut,
\n“Projections,” is dark and wonderfully gothic and has the allure of
\na Cranes number, but possesses the warmth of Cocteau Twins.
\n“Saturday Morning,” the second track, begins with a simple alt-folk
\nlick that sounds like something out of a Throwing Muses or even an
\nearly REM record, developing layers eventually, which elicit
\nstrange and ambiguous images.<\/p>\n

And images are what this EP is all about. The ambient
\nnature of the music gussies up the album with lavish textures that
\ncreate mysterious forms of the music: imageries are the very
\nessence of A Shoreline Dream’s sound. This EP also is full of weird
\nguitar textures, and the variety in the guitar styles mingles well
\nwith the ethereally doleful sound that is inherent to the band,
\nmaking the record very interesting.<\/p>\n

The guitars that make the first half of the EP are
\nharmonious and pretty but turn grimy as the second half begins with
\nthe Swervedriver-styled “Focus The Present,” which lavishes in
\nlanguid guitars that are dirty and destructive, topped with the
\nsense of pallor of an experimental Sonic Youth number, but much
\nmore subtle.<\/p>\n

The album ends with the ultimate down-tempo track,
\nthe Radiohead-style “Motherly Advice” that has a mix of the beauty
\nof the first two numbers and the coarseness of the third. This
\nsleepy cut pleasantly surprises when it explodes suddenly in the
\nmidst, picking up a grungy riff with Policky’s vocals raising
\npitches to match the bombast of the music. The song ends with the
\nlayers of music subsiding gradually, relieving its breathlessness
\nin small measures.<\/p>\n

A Shoreline Dream, though has a completely different
\nsound from Drop The Fear, still shares the same inspiring effect.
\nThe fluidity in the seemingly difficult complexity of this group’s
\nmusic is still as present as in Drop The Fear. This sampler EP of
\nthe yet-to-be-released debut CD is enough of a proof as to what an
\namazing act this is, and says magnitudes of what to expect of the
\nalbum and the group itself in the future.<\/p>\n

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