Tiny Outer Space

Candy Claws “White Seal – Shell & Spine”

Candy Claws’s new album Ceres & Calypso in the Deep Time Forever feels a little confusing at first, maybe because it seems so strange for a shoegazer album to feel so bright, hopeful, and sorta extroverted. At times the music sounds like Kevin Shields producing Os Mutantes or Burt Bacharach – comfortable, now archaic sounds of luxury and pleasure heard at a distance, like walking around some resort so stoned that you feel like you’re barely there. The album is gorgeous and incredibly clever – I can’t believe no one has thought to make this yet, given how many people have been writing fake My Bloody Valentine records in the time between Loveless and mbv. It could stand to have a bit more bass, though – the soothing effect of this music would probably be doubled if you could really feel some deep, low notes anchoring all that treble.

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