Fleeting Joys - Occult Radiance

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4...according to our Business Lady on Thu 27 Aug, 2009.

If you saw one of My Bloody Valentine's reunion shows this year and thought to yourself - 'That was great. Now what?' - well you could go out and buy one of the many Jesus & Mary Chain rip-off's that have graced the record shops of the world in the last six months. Occult Radiance may be treading a well worn path with their excursions into shoe-gazing rock but 'Fleeting Joys' is a pretty reasonable offering to the 2009 resurgence in all things J&MC. It's like a rocked out american grunge reworking of shoe-gazer themes with an emphasis on big riffs vs. soothing vocal ambience. It's not far removed from bands like Hum or, more specifically Swervedriver but the vocals have a distinct Ride feel to them with occasional tracks veering into Spiritualized territory. Not the most original record in the world but a well conceived effort ne'er the less. It's the sound of heartache, depression, love, misery and desperation, something i'm sure we can all relate too y'all.

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"If you saw one of My Bloody Valentine's reunion shows this year and thought to yourself - 'That was great. Now what?' - Occult Radiance may be the perfect answer to your question...The band attack their songs a little harder then MBV ever did, kind of like grunge-friendly shoegaze...prime examples of the best that 21st century shoegazing has to offer..."
- David Mansdorg, Loosing Today

"Fleeting Joys merge huge swathes of tone into one big sound, as if they've turned each instrument into liquid and poured them into your ears..." - The MagUK

"...sounding like part love, part death, part hope, part sadness."
- Sideways Through Sound, Australia

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