24 Deep Discount Mark Down Sounds

A Deeper Heaven – Future Fear – Shore Dive Records

Not too long ago I listen to the single Stay from A Deeper Heaven. Then I promptly try to capture in words what that track is about here. https://meatsheetfanzine.com/elite-new-diy-sos-help-desk-heaven/ If you didn’t just click through and skipped my intro, then allow me to tell you A Deeper Heaven hails from Salt Lake City at the current moment. Shout out to Iceburn.

Future Fear is the follow-up to that February 2024’s track, Stay .There is a video for Stay. It’s a hard watch for me due to subject matter and having lost my mother and several people to cancer. Alas, like the next entry below it puts the song into a new visual context.

Future Fear opens with snapping, crispy drums.Boom bap boom boom bap. Steady upbeat hits. Ringing chiming clean ish guitars. Following with hefty, burly, Simon Gallup inspired bass notes and slides. The DIIV and Cure influences abound on this song. No need to fear, I link you. https://adeeperheaven.bandcamp.com/track/future-fear

Undeniably, Future Fear is going for the shoegaze sound but still finding cozy spaces in new wave territory, Future Fear has the jangle and reverb guitars that shy indie gazers wish for. The higher notes of the guitar yearning in tone. A feeling that is easier expressed in song, maybe ?

Until about 2 minutes in the guitar drops out leaving the bass and drums to set the pace and offer an introspective mood. If not introspective mood, then perhaps protective and concerned, wistful, as the vocals sing “You’re far too young”. An elder hoping to shield a youth from the too much, too soon life traumas.

That is an interesting contrast from the bright and vibrant strumming through out Future Fear. So if you seek that dreamy sound but desire a touch of pop, and slight late 80’s guitar edge Future Fear abides.


Ride – Interplay – Wichita Records – (Bernard)

Just finished listening to the new Ride album Interplay. This is the band’s third post reunion album and I have to say that even though they have taken their sound in a different direction since reuniting I have enjoyed what they have put out so far and this one is no exception. Right from the first song “Peace Sign” with its bright synths and anthemic chorus it’s obvious that the band have moved far away from the shoegaze sound of their earlier records. Most of the songs on the record have a more of eighties feel to them with the use of a lot more synths and a lot more electronics.

One of the longest songs on the album “Essaouira” is probably the best illustration of the band’s new approach. Named after city in Morroco it incorporates a mixture of trip hop and psychedelic pop as it builds over the course of seven minutes.

Also, going in a more 80s direction is the driving “Monaco” and the New Order-ish “Last Frontier” both which feature chiming guitars and sparking synth chords. “Sunrise Chaser” has glimmering synths while the closing track “Yesterday is Just a Song” goes into more psychedelic territory with its warm coating of haunting electronics.

But where the album really shines is when Ride merge their new direction with the shoegaze sound of their 90s heyday and nothing shows that more than the cinematic “Light in a Quiet Room”. Starting off the band singing over waves of shimmering synths for about three minutes only to switch over to hazy second half that incorporates a noisy build up of shoegazey guitars making it the closet thing to the band’s old sound.

The shimmering “Portland Rocks” with its soaring guitars and the sparkling “Last Night I Went Somewhere to Dream” with its dreamy melody also reminded me of Ride’s older days. The spine tingling “I Came to See the Wreck”, the acoustic and piano driven “Stay Free” and finally the pounding “Midnight Rider” are the remaining songs on the record that best reflects Ride’s new found confidence and continuing growth as a band. So yeah Ride have shown that they have no intention on repeating themselves since reuniting and I for one have no problem with that.

Interplay Inner Group photo of RIDE

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