Cloudland Canyon - Fin Eaves

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4...according to our Brett on Thu 02 Sep, 2010.

This shit's like uber-shoegaze. Ubergaze. Totally obscured, hazy, feedbacky and effects-laden psychedelic drift-rock that sounds as if it'd probably be totally full of hooks if only you could hear any of them. Pretty Flying Saucer Attack-ish I guess. Or maybe a bit Bardo Pond-y? It's doing a pretty good job of creating an audio equivalent to that warm feeling you get in your stomach when you're coming up and I imagine that's probably the point, so job done. Weirdly it keeps reminding me of the start of 'Geraldine' by Glasvegas though.. Whatever happened to them? I remember when I started here is was all "Glasvegas this, Glasvegas that, Glasvegas the bloody other" and then nowt. Ah, the fickle world of indie rock.

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Originally an all-things-not-Panthers outlet for guitarist Kip Ulhornswapping musical ideas with Simon Wojan (now in King
Khan andhis Shrines), Cloudland Canyon spent several years interpreting themore structurally-challenged examples of Krautrock, .70s psych ofthe drone-discovering variety, spots of unnerving (in a good way) improvhere and there, and the wonderful .90s bands that started out ashead-scratchers and ended up as innovators (first-wave Siltbreeze andKranky highlights).Fin Eaves, the band.s third full-length overall, is the inaugural albumfrom Cloudland Canyon Phase II. Joined once again by significant-other Kelly Ulhorn and a rotating cast of contributors, Kip hascrafted a unique take on really, really goddamned loud and noisy.Most important.hinted at on 2008.s Lie in Light.are big, unavoidablepop hooks clawing their way out of a pulsating, throbbing thicknessof guitar, bass, who-knows-what-type-of-effects and understatedbut omnipresent drumming. Imagine a Flying Saucer Attack foundationsupporting noise on par with the first two Iran albums, or maybeeven Jesu, with flowing vocals providing the major pop-hook components.

Cloudland Canyon.s new creative level is not indebted to, but informedby the aforementioned band. Fin Eaves is an antidote forwidespread devastation caused by Creative Bankruptcy and TheArrogance of Assumed Originality.two epidemics of devastatingmediocrity that will cause our children to break their own ribs withconvulsive laughter. This album will be slobbered over by both cobweb-crotched solitude-enthusiasts and beautiful people alike for yearsand years, necessitating a barrage of reissue box-sets that make thatStone Roses behemoth look like a cassingle. Here.s your chance to getblown away the first time around.

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