Pinkshinyultrablast are a five-piece shoegaze band from St. Petersburg, Russia that formed in 2007. I just found out they put an album out last year that I somehow completely missed, and have another new album coming out this month. This is mind-blowing since their debut EP is easily one of my favourite shoegaze releases in the past handful of years. I can't recommend it enough. It's got all the melody you'd expect, from the faint vocals to the clean, chorus and reverb-soaked guitars, and even all-out blasts of distortion to coat the shimmers of melody. All the obvious influences are in the mix, such as Slowdive, Cocteau Twins, Lush, Ride, you know the names.
Happy Songs For Happy Zombies isn't reinventing any wheels, but it's definitely got an amazing motion to it. I cannot recommend enough to any fan of shoegaze, especially those who think the genre begins and ends with
Loveless and
Souvlaki, and anything after the turn of the century is irrelevant. I'm incredibly excited to give the album a listen, and just wanted to quickly throw a post up about them, so enjoy.
1. blaster
2. Deerland
3. Honeybee
4. Ode To Godzilla
1. Wish We Were
2. Holy Forest
3. Glitter
4. Metamorphosis
5. Umi
6. Land's End
7. Ravestar Supreme
8. Marigold
1. Initial
2. Grow Vastly
3. I Catch You Napping
4. Kiddy Pool Dreams
5. Comet Marbles
6. The Cherry Pit
7. Mölkky
8. Grandfeathered
1. Dance AM
2. Triangles
3. Find Your Saint
4. Eray
5. Blue Hour
6. Earth And Elsewhere
7. Taleidoscope
8. In The Hanging Gardens
9. Looming
