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UK Shoegaze legends, now on baby blue vinyl!
âFuture Ruins achieves everything an admirer could ask of the reunited bandâs new albumâŚSwervedriver now posses a melancholic, autumnal undertow that suits them like a little distinguished grey in the whiskersâŚa career-best peakâŚFuture Ruins pulls off a canny trick, perfectly channeling their past, while making sense in the presentâ â 4 stars, MOJO
âThe spacious, Neil Young-ian rumbling of the title track and the bulked-up power-pop of âSpiked Flowerâ both see co-founders Adam Franklin and Jimmy Hartridge venture beyond the template of Raise and Mezcal Head without making the faithful worry theyâve ditched their distortion pedalsâ â 7/10, Uncut
âThat first song, âMary Winter,â is a heavy wave of swirling guitar fuzz offset by the soothing balm of Franklinâs voice.â â Stereogum
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UK Shoegaze legends, now on baby blue vinyl!
âFuture Ruins achieves everything an admirer could ask of the reunited bandâs new albumâŚSwervedriver now posses a melancholic, autumnal undertow that suits them like a little distinguished grey in the whiskersâŚa career-best peakâŚFuture Ruins pulls off a canny trick, perfectly channeling their past, while making sense in the presentâ â 4 stars, MOJO
âThe spacious, Neil Young-ian rumbling of the title track and the bulked-up power-pop of âSpiked Flowerâ both see co-founders Adam Franklin and Jimmy Hartridge venture beyond the template of Raise and Mezcal Head without making the faithful worry theyâve ditched their distortion pedalsâ â 7/10, Uncut
âThat first song, âMary Winter,â is a heavy wave of swirling guitar fuzz offset by the soothing balm of Franklinâs voice.â â Stereogum
