The new album from Shadowgraphs, Another Time, out tomorrow via Golden Brown, is the sort of release that straddles multiple genres with the resulting record ending up being a pretty wonderful thing. If you are desperate for a label, call this chamber pop, even though shoegaze elements abound.
"I've Been Around" and "Before The Time" chime and ring from under a bright, electronic sheen, like offerings from Temples, while the lighter title cut echoes recent releases from Papercuts, for instance. Elsewhere, the superb "Run For Your Life" sees Bryan Olson and Charles Glade embrace production that places the lush music somewhere close to early O.M.D. sides, or the best material from Butterfly Child. The tunes here on Another Time rarely drift away into the ether, though they nearly do as some of these cuts seem to run together in a listener's ears. Still, a number like "Peninsula Park" is so easy to love that it seems churlish nitpicking anything about this band's music. When they do this properly, Shadowgraphs hit all the right notes and, in small doses, parts of Another Time are truly transcendent.
Another Time is out tomorrow via Golden Brown.
More details on Shadowgraphs via the band's official Facebook page.
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