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The sound is a hazy atmosphere of feedback and noise that allows the listeners to get lost.
This page is to tribute Skywave. Even though they are no longer a band their music must be remembered. Each member moved on to form other great bands. Paul and John have made the intoxicating sounds of Ceremony, and Oliver moved to NYC to build effects pedals (death by audio) and form A Place to Bury Strangers.
This Fredericksburg , Virginia band markets themselves as Americanshoegazer music. Comparing themselves to the likes of Slowdive and Spiritualized , but the categorization kind of misses the boat. What Skywave come across as is a distortion band. Vocals tucked under a fuzz of guitar distortion. You know... the bands that were so heralded back in the mid 80's like The Jesus and Mary Chain, Galaxy 500, The Spacemen 3 and My Bloody Valentine generally for their master of guitar distortion combined with a pop sensibility. I was impressed with Skywaves studio techniques that didn't use a glossy production to hide their own art of distortion. Some songs recall Psychocandy era JMC. When the band works with atmospherics it does somewhat echo an influence of the shoegazers but the raw sound brings it back to roots rock and roll , which was at the heart of the 80's distortion bands.
The songs are somewhat bittersweet lost love songs and other songs bring in a mysterious violence in it's subject matter. The vocals are tight and melodic when so many bands today depend on rage driven male vocals that couldn't hold a melody to save there lives. Skywave are moving in a more atmospheric direction in their new material which has not been released yet. So all and all this is not a bad release from a rookie band trying to break out of it's cocoon. I look forward to the new material and you should too
-I Drank What Magazine
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We could see thoughts in your pose The way you stood wrote your mind The cold never seemed to fall The lines were drawn like an arrow between Let your hair fall to shield you eyes But the trust between would never dissolve We knew what you saw when you looked Reading drops reflected falling into puddles And what it was held you terrified Arms held loosely by your side, akimbo The narrowing we saw in your eyes When you saw the patterns left behind We believed in you
Sultry goddess, you spin the stars above us Bring questions to our answers Your prophesies sealing fates for use at a better time And no one is left alone By the cool grey cloth that fall between us Charts telling truths only you could see The patterns in the sky weaving A taste of clouds building, dangerous Vigil candles burning through the night We believed in you
We knew there was no way to change We should never have felt the way that we did But when the sun had crested, we fell away There was nothing left to argue, you knew it You were the only one left We threw ourselves down at your side And you turned your head away, you weren’t surprised After all you knew who was the first one
Stretched out on the sand you showed no lines Your lotions went on smoothly disappearing Only grains of sand visible on your skin The sky found no impediment to you body You tore down all the barriers yourself You were the one between us and the rising sun But you were the one that blinded We could see no lines there
You knew you were the last of you kind The mountains never seemed so high It was your laugh that had set us on the edge There was nothing else like it, we were scared Your dark eyes told us you made up you mind There was no cliff but we could feel it there There was no fall but we were still scared We were between you and them
Your descent to the valleys was fluid One step followed another, content in the knowing That no snow could ever touch you Those icy feathers all around you sublime in fear It was all so understandable to us They knew they could never match you
(Catherine: verse 1 and refrain) (From the Amara EP)
Were you lonely or only certain? We can’t be certain, but we feel Anyone could guess what you were thinking The way we found you in time, frozen Your eyes locked on us forever There was no one else there but us And it didn’t even seem to matter That you could be everything you were While we stand in plain sight hiding
We really felt like we were there with you At the time you gave yourself away so fully That we believed in what you wanted Please don’t let us be mistaken You are everlasting, in our world You are everlasting
We found you glazed with honey at the poolside Your cast-iron lounge throwing off mirage Left us sweating in the weeds The see-thru ripples haze the air And just barely hide your curves from us You acted like we weren’t even there But when you glance drifted through us We could tell your thoughts were turning You moved like silver boiling in a tube When a better idea flashed in your eyes
A glance burned through the licorice ropes We bound you with, empty calories couldn’t hold you over Tapped and wilt us with the green of your eyes Slick from the saturation you’ll find yourself Trying to grasp the true separation Of pleasure and pain, eternal through now You’ll let yourself feel the occasional attack And stretch like taffy in preparation of the water That sprays with bubbles when you slip inside
(Seraphina: verse 1 and refrain) (From the Amara EP)
This Fredericksburg , Virginia band markets themselves as Americanshoegazer music. Comparing themselves to the likes of Slowdive and Spiritualized , but the categorization kind of misses the boat. What Skywave come across as is a distortion band. Vocals tucked under a fuzz of guitar distortion. You know... the bands that were so heralded back in the mid 80's like The Jesus and Mary Chain, Galaxy 500, The Spacemen 3 and My Bloody Valentine generally for their master of guitar distortion combined with a pop sensibility. I was impressed with Skywaves studio techniques that didn't use a glossy production to hide their own art of distortion. Some songs recall Psychocandy era JMC. When the band works with atmospherics it does somewhat echo an influence of the shoegazers but the raw sound brings it back to roots rock and roll , which was at the heart of the 80's distortion bands.
The songs are somewhat bittersweet lost love songs and other songs bring in a mysterious violence in it's subject matter. The vocals are tight and melodic when so many bands today depend on rage driven male vocals that couldn't hold a melody to save there lives. Skywave are moving in a more atmospheric direction in their new material which has not been released yet. So all and all this is not a bad release from a rookie band trying to break out of it's cocoon. I look forward to the new material and you should too
-I Drank What Magazine
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