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Soft Shoe
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Out of 10 votes - Similar Artists: My Brother the Bear, Felt, Stereolab, the Sea and Cake, Galaxie 500, Spacemen 3, Cocteau Twins, Yo La Tengo, Slowdive
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a different approach to noise and atmosphere.
28-Nov-2005 02:11:50 AM
Reviewer: thesectsetsin
drawing from what i hear to be a combination of the spacemen 3, stereolab, galaxie 500, the velvet underground, and even brian eno at points, i can't help but be consumed by this extremely lo-fi, heavily reverberated and distorted state of dreaming. (try: listening to this band with headphones.) call me crazy. its an injustice to the modern world that bands like this rarely surface. i wrote up a song by song review of my favorites below. i figured the band would appreciate it, if anyone at all. kudos.
"and you begin" : a jolting dose of jangly rythym guitar, double dipped in treble, sprinkled with reverb and topped with sugar sweet pop melodies. most comparable to a overtly noisy belle & sebastian meets stereolab (minus the drum machines.)
"pretending you are" : loveless fans, lookout! well, almost. a definite throwback to late 80's rockers like the spacemen 3, and early nineties shoe-gaze, soft shoe invokes the spirits of their obvious heroes here, and then some. beautifully orchestrated (and unorthodox) vocal harmonies drowning (again) in distortion and reverb. the lyrics and vocals at points completely lose all coherence within the torrent of noise and are definitely exteremely difficult to decipher, but i don't think that was ever the point anyway, they are used in this sense more like another instrument, instead of something meant to sit atop the music. a cataclysmic rise and fall of sorts, this almost 7 minute mini epic is definitely worth a listen.
"where we end" : a gentler more atmospheric band is featured here at the getgo, wrapping themselves in a blanket of echoey feedback, but losing most of the fuzz any listener would note as an obvious motif within their music. using words and lyrics very sparsely here, with an almost ira kaplan like vocal treatment, the song quickly and intensely shifts, at points treading off into haunting asides of noise that become almost overbearing at points. featured is the shoe's trademark for ending in a dizzying tornado of musical abstract expressionism.
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Cavernous Dream Pop
26-Aug-2005 05:52:49 AM
Reviewer: bduhamel
Soft Shoe are a band of great talent, though they wear their influences on their sleeves. Obvious influences are The Velvet Underground and most notably the late-'80's/early-'90's British Noise-Rock/Dream Pop band My Bloody Valentine.
Prepare to enter a cavernous world of droning guitars and abstract reveries.
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