White Noise Sound/ White Noise Sound

White Noise Sound
White Noise Sound
(Alive Naturalsound Records)

There are few greater songs that Spaceman 3’s Revolution. Lucky for us WNS have written Sunset which is destined to save Last.fm accounts across the world from appearing to be totally devotional to the J Spaceman/Sonic Boom cause. There’s a truck load of reverb on everything. It’s a dizzying album opener that leaves the pallet sceptical of plagiarism.

There are few sounds on this record, that despite intentions to displace, leave the listener comforted through familiarity. Yet this self defeating syndrome permeating modern shoegaze not only shows how far the genre has come but how far it could reach. Track “Don’t Wait For Me” rides the 60’s sitar sounds many will be familiar with, but added to this are Apocalypse Now undertones. As with the movie, we are less likely to observe the harrowing polemics, rather the sugar-coated Hollywood heights; ‘Apocalypse Now is less a horrorshow, more a masterpiece’ etc.

In Blood / Blood (reprise) the band indulge the psychedelic aspects of reverb to their fullest, however as energy fuelled as the track may be, it is far from being a masterclass in Drone.

For all the record’s banalities and over-explored territories there is something quite nourishing in the idea that there is still room for experimentation. The band rarely commit the same offence twice, constantly digging for new ways to re-invent the wheel. This mentality pays off on “Is It There For You” and “No Place To Hide”, both of which should be heralded for epitomising feverous endeavour