Blog: The Pop Stereo!

The latest finds from the Treasure Trove, starts here... It makes sense that in a year following a reunion by one of the highlights of shoegaze, My Bloody Valentine, and a late-period masterpiece by the former Red House Painter Mark Kozelek (as Sun Kil Moon), that Greensboro, North Carolina's Citified would return with Absence –a record that splits the difference between the softly driven lyrical work of the latter and the hazy crunch of the former. Think about Swervedriver's gift for finding the classic pop and rock structures beneath the murk of shoegaze [...]