Brooklyn’s The Blessed Isles have given us the video premiere for ‘Caroline’ the lead track from their debut LP Straining Hard Against the Strength of Night which is forthcoming on Saint Marie Records. Watch it below, its evocative tidal wave of shimmering guitars are sliced by the evocative hazy plaintive vocal harmonies of Aaron Closson. While beats and sensuous baselines erect modernistic dynamics within classic shoegaze sounds, like the expansive soundscapes of early M83 or Slowdive colliding with New Order‘s post-punk tremble and wistful melodies, and it sounds mighty fine…
“Brooklyn’s The Blessed Isles emerge after five years holed up recording in studios across four states, the band stands poised to inject a much-needed dose of substance into the shoegaze bloodstream with their debut LP, Straining Hard Against the Strength of Night. Not satisfied to merely recreate the genre’s trademark textures, vocalist and guitarist Aaron Closson (The Hourly Radio) and multi-instrumentalist Nolan Thies (N?TIONS).”
