Soundpool

Soundpool - Do What You Love Soundpool Tour Dates 04/12/08 Annex, New York 04/17/08 Parish Navdo Presents-Austin, TX 04/18/08 Parish Navdo Presents-Austin, TX 04/26/08Galaxy Hut - Arlington, Virginia 05/01/08 Mercury Lounge - New York 05/04/08 Soundpool live! 90.3 the Core - NJ 05/09/08 Metro Gallery, Baltimore, MD 05/10/08 Contemporary Art of Detroit, MI Discography [2006] On High [2006] On High (Japanese Edition) [2008] Dichotomies + Dreamland Band Members ♥ Kim Field ♥ John Ceparano ♥ Mark Robinson ♥ James Renard ♥ Rich Bennett, Dean McCormick, Andy Durutti Sounds Like My Bloody Valentine http://weheartmus... My Bloody Valentine are an alternative rock band formed in Dublin, Ireland in 1984 and predominat...

Okay, so I had this stack of CD, including this one, to see some local W♥M writers to possibly review for me. Then, something happened, I decided to listen to a few albums on my drive to see them. I put in Soundpool's album, Dichotomies & Dreamland, not knowing what to expect, and was blown away by their music! They instantly made me think of the shoegazing genre.

I was so impressed that I removed the album from the stack of CD right away and have decided to write about this album personally.

This five-piece band is based out of New York City, and on their myspace description, it looks like they have trouble keeping their bass player (as there are three names attached to this position). It would seem, according to their liner notes, that Dean McCormick plays on most of the of the tracks on their album.

I don't have their first album to compare notes, but it would seem that most of the music were written by John Ceparano with some collaboration with vocalist Kim Field, both are obviously big fans of early Lush^[W♥M], Stereolab^[W♥M], My Bloody Valentine^[W♥M], etc.

I really enjoyed "Do What You Love", it reminded me of Miki Berenyi's dreamy voice. This is really a great song, and even at five minutes, I still think it's too short!

So one of the big problems for me is that I can never understand or hear clearly enough the lyrics being sung on shoegazing music. Thankfully, Dichotomies & Dreamland reprinted all the lyrics.

Here are some sample lyrics from one of the other songs I love, "The Divides Of March":

Peace through violence, peace through war
Love through hatred, less through more war
The divides of March have blinded the dove eyed to their dove vision

If I hadn't read the lyrics, I would've never figure that this song is about war.

Dichotomies & Dreamland is out now on Aloft Records (errr, not online???) in the US (alternatively iTunes) and Quince Records in Japan.

PS, I really dislike the term "nu-gaze".

 03/31/2008 01:54:44  vu my♥posts soundpoolmusic.com myspace.com