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towards and through new
quests and explorations.
Last year they released
two monumental live
albums, “Live At Spacefest
Gdañsk, Poland,(2015)” –
an album of high energy
shoegaze for the fans of
music in general, and
“Live Sessions” that cap-
tured the moment of cre-
ation of the noise in two
different studios with the
band live in the studio –
a release that addresses
mainly the young with
guitars and their ‘gaze
boards and gear. This year
they are releasing “Songs
Of Love And Revolution”
LP (February 5, 2021) and
the first one to appear
was “Strange Waves”, a
song so cool and nice,
and a song that can also
easily confuse the new
fans of the band as it is
not the ‘appropriate’ track
to get into the realms of
the band. But which one
fr om Lawrie’s endless
quiver is the ‘appropri-
ate’ for the introductions?
Watch “Strange Waves”
HERE
And if you continue to
“Mesmerized” it will all
start taking shape, not
the final one, but it is a
good piece to the puzzle.
Th e ban d pla ys sho e -
gaze, yes, but with a lot
of drone and psych and
noise rock too, and with a
keen on keeping that wall
wet with effects and tech-
nique that only a handful
of other ‘prophets’ dare.
Listen “Mesmerised” HERE
The Telescopes wer e
always a bit out of the
box from the shoegaze
tr end themselves, but
funny and quite ‘sacred’
is when they are invited
to the stages of the world
(festivals, clubs, etc) as a
titanic force of the genre
and a band with the most
respect by all. You see,
they don’t offer shoegaze
music like racing with
the other fine shoegaze
racers, no, they are con-
stantly offering the origins
of the technique with a
long string of releases for
30+ years now. And they
are not a laidback pack
of old wolves wandering
around with their crowns,
they don’t need that. The
Telescopes will never give
you the new paths of ‘gaze
music but they always
unveil their own mysti-
cism with their attempts to
going closer to the matter,
and like in such cases, all
origins are now new again;
like smelling the soil for
the first time, again. You
wanna call it shoegaze,
fine! You want it drone, it
is too! You hear in it the
noise-rock grooves, sure!
Psychedelia, absolutely!
Occasional tribal underlay-
ers, you got it! You must
be getting prepared for
February 5. What, wanted
me to review each track
and explain what I heard?
But this is impossible with
The Telescopes, keep this
from the top of the article
“It is music for a four-
piece ensemble that will
ne ve r so un d th e s am e
twice in any given envi-
ronment or to any set of
ears”.
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