by Dan Goldin (@post_trash_)
Chicago quartet Sorespot are very good at what they do. If you aren’t familiar with the band, here’s your introduction (as it was mine): there’s heaps of feedback and sweetly subtle harmonies, and they go together perfectly on the band’s upcoming album, Gifts of Consciousness. Due out on April 3rd via Midnight Werewolf Records (Fred Cracklin, Quiet Moves, Blue Ray), the album is bursting with shoegaze bliss that’s steadily heavy and washed with enormous hooks. Each repeated listen is another notch of familiarity to a record well worth listening to over and over again.
The band’s first single “The Jams” is a brief listen at two minutes, but Sorespot’s album is built on these type of moments. Concise and overblown, they don’t need extended runtimes to sink their point in, and the blare of guitars that blanket everything make sure their impact is felt immediately. It’s delicate yet swollen, built on primal attack but nuanced melodies, a sugar sweet juxtaposition for everyone that likes their pop at it’s utter loudest. Guitars ring and bleed, spiraling from a simple chord progression into a relentless attack. Maggie Gard and Josh Snader’s voices blend together in one slow-drawn swoon, keeping the scales tipped toward accessibility in the wake of colossal noise.