Drowner Featured in IMPOSE Magazine
Drowner has the distinct pleasure of being featured in IMPOSE Magazine today. Amid a stellar line up of new music, our track “Never Go Away” gets some love.
Drowner caught us offguard this week with the mind expanding elegance of “Never Go Away.” Heralding from Space City, USA – Houston, TX – the band are like dreamancers that repeat the sounds that have made their way from the unconscious into the awakend world of far away sounding buzz-saw guitars. Drowner’s self-titled comes out March 13 on Saint Marie.
Thanks to Sjimon Gompers for his wonderful words, and for turning us on to some other great acts in his amazing “Week in Pop” rundown. To catch this mention in context, and to see the other awesome bands who made the list, go here.
Review of Drowner’s Debut on ReadJunk
Gracious thanks to Adam Coozer of ReadJunk for his amazing review of Drowner’s debut release for Saint Marie records. Describing our sound as “Shoegaze on a symphonic, grand scale,” he details:
“Drowner is aptly named. The album, but particularly the first four tracks, sounds like a song arc – first, a feeling of being swept into a maelstrom: powerful, ominous, swirling indie rock clashing with an echo chamber of shoegazing female vocals. Then the tracks flow into an afterlife of tension, release, introspection, and grace. The multilayered, reverbing vocals sound like a flock of angels commenting from above on a drowning victim’s last moments.
…The guitar chords are expansive, often minor key, and the rhythm is steady but understated like a fading pulse. But it’s the fuzzy, dreamy vocals that take the oceanic music and make it otherworldly. It’s like bathing in an eternity of cosmic radiation.”
You can read the full text of the review, as well as discover other great content on ReadJunk.com.
Drowner S/T is slated for release on 3/13/2012. But, you can get it early via pre-order on SMR’s website, or on Amazon.com.
