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14     Loud Cities Magazine / #1 Jan 2021

  REVIEW
         THE TELESCOPES:






         “SONGS OF LOVE






         & REVOLUTION”









                                                                               Lawrie and his insis -
                                                                               tence on the vision of
                                                                               The Telescopes act.  Also,
                                                                               Tapete Records proudly
                                                                               underlines


                                                                               ‘This is the 12th album
                                                                               by The Telescopes, music
                                                                               for a four-piece ensemble
                                                                               that will never sound the
                                                                               same twice in any given
                                                                               environment or to any set
                                                                               of ears.’


                                                                               I couldn’t agree more with
                                                                               all these people.


                                                                               It is the restless heart
                                                                               of Lawrie and his mates
         This is the stunning new           or anything else ordinary          who are responsible for
         full-length album “Songs           shoegaze. They have been           this new kind of reshape
         of Love And Revolution” by         described by the British           the  foundations  of  the
         the celebrated ‘gaze outfit        music press as ‘more a             scenery, and proof of it
         The  Telescopes (UK), out          revolution of the psyche           in the course of the band
         on February 5,  2021, via          than  a revolution  of  the        is their every new record.
         Hamburg based indepen-             sidewalk’;  a  thread con-         From the abstract field
         dent label Tapete Records,         sistent throughout a body          recordings’  use  in  their
         and every time they                of work spanning over 30           music to the wall of sound
         release something new we           years.                             matter in the studio, The
         must consider them once                                               Telescopes steadily evolve
         again; The Telescopes is           All  of  this  is utterly true     and steadily r eshape
         not an ordinary rock band          with respect to Stephen            their sound, leading it all
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