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Whitelands — Night-bound Eyes Are Blind to the Day (Sonic Cathedral)

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Depending on your feelings about the genre, it’s a sign of either good or ill health that we’ve gotten to the point where new shoegaze bands can be inspired, not just by Slowdive (that wouldn’t be particularly novel), but specifically by post-reunion Slowdive. It’s worked out for London quartet Whitelands; since singer/guitarist Etienne Quartey-Papafio saw a 2017 radio session that helped put the final pieces of their sound in place, they’ve been asked to open for the older band, and Slowdive drummer Simon Scott even mastered this debut. Indicators tip more towards the positive side of the spectrum when you play Night-bound Eyes Are Blind to the Day (a very genre-appropriate mouthful) and discover it’s a lot more than just a tribute act.

Truthfully, other than having a balance between catchy melodies and rapturous textural bliss, as Slowdive mastered on Souvlaki, the two bands don’t sound terribly close together within their shared genre boundaries. Right from the start, there’s a clarity and focus in the songs here that belies their sometimes diaphanous settings. Night-bound Eyes Are Blind to the Day’s trim 33 minute runtime frequently feels misleading given how expansive and far out it can feel when playing, although even then there’s an element keeping things anchored enough that the band never lets the songs fully drift away. Everyone contributes; whether it’s drummer Jagun Meseorisa’s steady pulse on “Chosen Light,” Vanessa Govinden’s bass threading through the indelible chorus of “The Prophet & I,” or the way Quartey-Papafio and Michael Adelaja’s guitars twinkle then churn throughout “Cheer.”

On Whitelands’ Bandcamp page, you can find a 2018 version of “Cheer.” It has its own scrappy charms (and it’s a good enough song you understand why they’d give it another crack), but the newer version doesn’t seem polished down into something more digestible; instead it's both strengthened and more comfortable in its own skin. Night-bound Eyes Are Blind to the Day has the kind of easy, confident sense of the band’s sonic identity that many great debuts manage; even when they bring in Dottie from deary to sing on “Tell Me About It,” the result just sounds distinctly Whitelands. By the time the album closes with the billowing “Now Here’s the Weather,” it’s clear that they’ve vaulted right past the likes of a 'promising debut' and have just made a record that’s already worth cherishing.

Ian Mathers

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Nella canzone che apre la scaletta di questa sera, gli Smashing Times raccontano della vita in una piccola e noiosa città, un lunedì sera qualunque. Se anche a voi ogni tanto capita di pensare che il posto dove siete vi stia un po’ stretto, potete provare a trovare conforto con un po’ di novità indiepop e indierock (magari aggiungendo un provvidenziale brindisi o due), suonate proprio ogni lunedì…

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