| Vallens / Consent |
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| Album: | Consent | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Vallens | Added: | Jun 2016 | |
| Label: | Hand Drawn Dracula | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2016-07-04 | Pull Date: | 2016-09-04 |
| Week Ending: | Sep 4 | Aug 28 | Aug 21 | Aug 14 | Aug 7 | Jul 31 | Jul 24 | Jul 17 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | May 27, 2017: | Ode to Year Two Dark Tunnel | 4. | Aug 25, 2016: | a strange pursuit Sins So Vain, Tennessee Haze | |
| 2. | Dec 16, 2016: | Life Aquatic (Best of '16, part 1) Tennessee Haze | 5. | Aug 24, 2016: | a strange pursuit Dark Tunnel | |
| 3. | Sep 03, 2016: | Stringless Balloon Consent | 6. | Aug 20, 2016: | Stringless Balloon - Creepy Early Bedtime Stories Consent |
| Album Review |
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| DJ Aporia Reviewed 2016-07-02 | ||
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Band that describes itself as "goth-gaze". Heavy, decaying, doom-inflected shoegaze in the manner of True Widow and Wax Idols. Glacial, subtly evolving, richly melancholic bliss that's best experienced in an abandoned cathedral at night. Favorites: 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9. No FCCs. 1. (2:16) While You Wait—Haunting piano and reverb. 2. (4:14) ** Drag—True Widow-type shoegaze. Driving, wine-red guitars and steady, plodding beat. 3. (4:11) *** Consent—Sweet bass line and dark gliding guitars. Catchy post-punk jam. Panicked in a restrained way, with a growing sense of finality in the last minute. 4. (3:40) Rosemary—Dark and doomy guitars, heavy, nearing metal territory. 5. (5:59) ** Devour—Richer guitars, brighter, picks up the pace. One minute quavering ambient outro. 6. (3:31) Karen—Spooky, insistent, syncopated. Wanders through all kinds of guitar tones and colors. Wordless until dreamy vocals enter in last minute and a half. 7. (3:51) *** Dark Tunnel—Psychey guitars, rolling and propulsive beat, dreamy pained vocals. Very True Widow. 8. (6:51) * Tennessee Haze—Heavy, churning, grungy shoegaze like Catherine Wheel/Whirr's latest album. Icy ghostlike ambient textures come in abruptly at 5:20. Entering the abyss… 9. (7:03) ** Sin So Vain—Tortured, spoken-word Drop Nineteens "Kick the Tragedy"-esque vocals. Vocals and repetitive solo guitar alternate consistently with a pounding '90s guitar jam. 10. (2:14) Still Need Dreams—Comparatively pop. Dreamy aimless guitars and lyrics. 40 second soft ambient outro. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | While You Wait | 6. | Karen | |||
| 2. | Drag | 7. | Dark Tunnel | |||
| 3. | Consent | 8. | Tennessee Haze | |||
| 4. | Rosemary | 9. | Sins So Vain | |||
| 5. | Devour | 10. | Still Need Dreams |