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Pinkshinyultrablast A Band From the Heavens
My Last Fm page tells me that I have listened to Pinshinyultrablast’s ‘Blaster’ 118 times.
The fact that I have only had the song a week means I’ve either got computer problems or I am rabidly obsessed by the song. Well, it’s the latter and I am not ashamed at my admission that I am totally smitten by this band and their brand of hauntingly vivid shoegaze brilliance.
I first heard ‘Blaster’ on Myspace and the song hit me like a shiny, fizzy and sweet sugar rush of exploding musical sherbet. Like My Bloody Valentine writhing euphorically with The Ecstasy of St Theresa. The song fliess out of the traps burning caustic sound waves of light onto your consciousness. Piercing melodic effect trickery on the guitars, swooning affectionate female vocals haunt the song like spectres of ethereal memories. The bass provides a well rounded platform that the drums slice through and against pulling the whole song into the stratospheres of musical genius.
‘Honeybee’ starts of like The Chameleons’ ‘Mad Jack’ and explodes into a chorus that sounds like a thousand musical bees swarming in some kind of blissful insect motif. The textures that this band weave branch out on each new track. The depth and clarity on this particular song will leave you skipping and swooning through any bleak period in your life, an elixir of the most potently sweet honey.
‘Ode to Godzilla’ has Pinkshinyultrablast going for a full on sonic assault on the senses. Exploding waves of distortion are punctuated by harmonious vocals creating a dual effect of calm and all out musical destruction. The drums thrash, the bass rumbles and the sound of a band in joyful unison spiral off taking you on a auricular journey of musicality. This band makes me so bloody happy!
‘Deerland’ starts by kicking you up the proverbial rear - a huge sonorous intro slips the song gently into calmer waters of ambient tributaries, that split in a thousand twilit directions. The band's name is about as apt as you can get. It encapsulates what this band essentially is and again this song is another example of Pinkshinyultrablast’s intense brand of melodious guitar driven shoegaze epiphanies.
It takes a lot for a band to inspire you to create something special but luckily here we have a band that would have anybody reaching for the guitars and effects pedals. This is Shoegaze 2009 and I can’t say that I have heard any band within that genre in the last 5 years that have inspired me as much as these wonderful people from Russia.
Essential listening for any fans of shoegaze or experimental guitar driven music.
I envy anyone listening to this band for the first time, as you are in for one beautiful surprise. Enjoy.
8.5/10
http://www.myspace.com/pinkshinyultrablastReview by Nicky.
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