Blue Diner. - Disc 2 LP
An ambient-shoegaze project that leans into melancholy without trying to resolve it, Blue Diner. can already boast on their resume a Triple J Unearthed featured artist of the week, a SXSW slot and an extensive list of touring and support placements across their young and fruitful career.
Self-described as quiet + loud, sitting somewhere between clarity and blur, their songs feel familiar in a way you can’t quite place — like something you’ve already been through, or maybe just imagined properly for the first time.
Fronted by Rosa Chen (vocals, bass), alongside Jack Lenstone (guitar), Jarren Abraham (guitar) and Tim Johnson (drums), Blue Diner. build slow, heavy soundscapes that never fully land — they just hang there, suspended.
Just 20 minutes of glorious noise, the record is pressed onto one-sided 'Lapis Blue' Vinyl, and limited to only 150 copies featuring our signature, numbered obi strip, this is a release we're certain will be looked back on as a truly special moment in the establishment of the new vanguard of Australian music.
if you’re a fan of shoegaze, like MBV or early Ride, you’ll fall hard for this album.
Only on Impressed.
STYLUS WRITER
TRUCKS
DISC 2
HEALING FREQUENCY
A WINDOW BROKEN
SEA ANEMONE
BURNOUT
HEAVY-HANDED
END THE DAY
Blue Diner. - Disc 2 LP
IF YOU LOVE SLOW PULP, SLOWDIVE, FEEBLE LITTLE HORSE OR GARAGE SALE, GIVE BLUE DINER. A SPIN
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They're in the business of making dreamy, ambient shoegaze that's made to be seen live. With an album on the way this May 1st, this won't be the last time you'll hear their name.
THIS PREORDER IS DROPPING IN
METALLIC BLUE 180 GRAM HEAVYWEIGHT PRESSING
YOU MIGHT ALSO LOVE SPINNING...
Impressed is so proud to collaborate with one of our favourite labels, Run For Cover, on an exclusive unique variant of their latest album A Short History of Decay. Released in February, this variant will be released in June ahead of their Australian tour in July.
Keen fans & collectors will have seen that previous variants have been candy themed. Limited to only 300 copies with our signature numbered obi strip.
Nothing have always been rule-breakers. Shoegaze renegades who’ve rebuilt the stereotypically lightweight genre in their own bloodyknuckled American image. Outlaw poets spilling existential dread on mile-wide canvasses of fuzz and reverb. Beginning as a Philly-born bedroom solo project in 2010, Nothing’s music has always captured the full scale of the human condition, both the blaring anger and the whispering sadness. A Short History of Decay, Nothing’s fifth solo album and first for Run For Cover Records, widens that aperture even further, providing the most hi-def rendering of Nothing to date. The band have never sounded this colossal, never felt this intimate, never been this honest.
With the strongest arsenal in Nothing’s ever-shifting lineup locked in -- guitarist Doyle Martin (Cloakroom), bassist Bobb Bruno (Best Coast), drummer Zachary Jones (MSC, Manslaughter 777), and third guitarist Cam Smith (Ladder To God, also of Cloakroom) -- singer-songwriter Domenic “Nicky” Palermo knew he had the manpower to make the band’s most ambitious record yet. Co-written and produced with Whirr guitarist Nicholas Bassett, and with additional production and mixing work from Sonny Diperri (DIIV, Julie), A Short History of Decay is the most evolved musical statement in Nothing’s catalog. Songs like “Cannibal World” and “Toothless Coal” are cataclysmic lashings of mechanised industrial-gaze that sound like My Bloody Valentine -- except more extreme.
On the other end of the spectrum, the ornately morose “Purple Strings” boasts a beautiful string arrangement that includes harpist -- and two-time Nothing contributor -- Mary Lattimore. That baroque delicacy permeates other A Short History of Decay highlights, particularly “The Rain Don’t Care,” a lilting ballad that channels the worn-down elegance of Mojave 3, and also “Nerve Scales,” a pattering bop that resembles Radiohead in its marriage of otherworldly atmosphere and mortal precision. Palermo calls the new record “a final chapter.” Not the end of Nothing, but the conclusion of a story that began with Nothing’s 2014 debut, Guilty of Everything -- another album about time, regret, and confronting uncomfortable truths -- and now resolves with A Short History of Decay. As much a snapshot of Palermo’s past as it is a leap into Nothing’s future.
Tracklist
1. never come never morning
2. cannibal world
3. a short history of decay
4. the rain don’t care
5. purple strings
6. toothless coal
7. ballet of the traitor
8. nerve scales
9. essential tremors
With thanks to Civilians.