Introducing Sway
aaamusic | On 23, Oct 2011
“In my dream I find a hill of grass moving to the rhythm of the breeze. I climb to the top, lie down, and stare at the cloudless sky taking it all in. My stomach lurches just a little bit as if being in an elevator going down and then I fall upwards into the blue void. That’s what good shoegaze is like, or rather, it’s the feeling I experience. The band I’m writing about, Sway, doesn’t deviate from this sentiment.”
– Eat Sleep Die Dot Com
– Eat Sleep Die Dot Com
Sway began making noise in 1999 in Ventura, California as a four-piece garage-rock outfit consisting of Andrew Saks, Amber Carlson, Seth Eubanks, and Vince Alatorre, playing shows and confusing audiences up and down the west coast with its blurry wall of sound. The collective has previously released a few indie EP’s including the shoegaze renaissance classic The Millia Pink And Green EP in 2003. New release, This Was Tomorrow is both Sway’s first full-length release and its last with musical contributions by all four original members, now a solo project of founding member Andrew Saks.
With this release, Andrew has begun his personal journey to write the soundtrack to his childhood memories. The album is a unique fusion of the enigmatic effects heavy ether-guitar employed by the likes of Slowdive, Robin Guthrie’s Cocteau Twins, and the heavily nostalgic bleeps and bloops of ’80s gaming consoles.
Headphone-friendly chip-gaze that will bring a smile to the face of the shoegaze faithful that are looking for something fresh, yet comfortingly familiar.
