More American shoegaze for 2012… The Sunshine Factory
aaamusic | On 23, Oct 2011
’Twisted And Clover’ starts with a lazy, early-90s college-rock guitar sludge before diving into a sprawling sonic head trip on concrete that feels like a midnight daydream. Sweet-toothed ‘My Sugar Cane’ blends the wall-of-sound approach with a ribbed white rainbow of electronics under an insanely tantalizing chorus, giving us a taste of what this genre could encompass with a modernized touch.”
– Michael Moratta, The Boston Phoenix
– Michael Moratta, The Boston Phoenix
The Sunshine Factory exists on a foundation of juxtapositions. Here are a group of musicians from the Gulf Coast channeling the spirits of late ’80s/early ’90s Thames Valley subversion – two seemingly disparate environments. Band founder Ian Taylor, worked solo until 2010. Ian sought inspiration from a variety of sources – including the engrossing chant music he enjoyed with his Eastern Orthodox upbringing. First drawn to the energy of punk and metal, Ian began looking for something more and discovered shoegaze and psychedelic music and as they say, the rest is history!
The Sunshine Factory via Saint Marie Records will release Sugar, an album that is steeped in the foundations of shoegaze bands such as The Jesus & Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine. TSF is in good company with the new wave of Shoegazers and Noisepop musicians like APTBS, Serena Maneesh and Ringo Deathstarr. Sugar was recorded over nearly a year and reflects the dank, fragrant air of the Deep South where you can almost smell the magnolias and see the moss hanging from ancient live oaks on the narrow streets of the bands home in Mobile, Alabama.
