Blackstone Rangers: Descendant (Saint Marie Records, 2014)
February 1, 2014 at 5:56 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment
Blackstone Rangers: Descendant
Texas shoegaze-influenced pop. Endless amounts of guitar effects, male/female (mostly female) vocals, and electronic beats. Opener “Descendant Of” does the endless drown-out guitar jam thing, but then “You Never” is a short surfy pop song, with a straightforward rhythm and upfront (but still too echoey to discern) vocals. “Judas Tree” has another uptempo rhythm, but clearer vocals, which sound excited and go “wooo!” at one point. “Frozen Echo” calms things down a little, has less electronic-sounding drums (but they’re still electronic), and the wordless vocals live up to the song’s title. “Nights//Days” is uptempo and anthemic, with assured, multi-tracked vocals and drums that even further blur the perceptions between live and electronic sounding. “Endless Sky” is another anthemic song with plenty of chorus echo on the vocals. The disc ends up sounding way poppier and less shoegazey than it seems like it will be at the beginning.
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