Xisuma's Musical Journey

  Opening with shiny crimson acoustics, Vertigo croons on contrasting vibes. Its initial Ethereal glaze rubs against a pacey rhythm section....

Enthralled by Rebirth's swelling descents of darkly Shoegazing magic, Planetary Shift has lingered in its shadow like an egg ready to ha...

  Illuminating attention with an engulfing dreary charm, Graywave, brainchild of Jess Webberley, intensifies their dense Shoegazing Ethereal...

  Two years on from Sour , Olivia matures, returning with welcome yet familiar tuneful dances of vulnerable self expression. Guts possibly s...

With an Ethereal haze of gristly guitar distortions casting adoring shadows across humble origins, Shanty sets a shimmering Shoegazing tone,...

  Wedged between two fine outings, their sophomore effort 12th House Rock fits awkwardly, an anomaly drifted off a fine trajectory. Narrow H...

 When invited to indulge with music so apt to ones taste, it can be a tricky task to pull on the threads of its magic. After being spoiled w...

  Herein lies another nostalgia bend, or so I thought on first glance. Hailing from Dallas, these Texan's reach thirty years back for in...

  Consistency is a thickly thing among bands amassing the years and albums. Maturing into their second decade, I anticipated a dip. With a s...

  Lured to Betty by Spotify's auto-play, I thought a follow up on Helmets final output before a later reunion was due. By fans and crit...

  To discover Helmet , is to learn of the bridge between Grunge and Nu Metal. Familiar with their classic Meantime, Betty drew me in after S...

  Smoothing out the oddities of torturous experimental sound design and crass, filthy humor, Type O Negative deliver a cohesive, lengthy al...

    Venturing further into the union of Synthwave and Black Metal, we find elevated production aesthetics that I'm not entirely sure aid...

This second foray into revivalist Shoegazing takes a matured aesthetic leap, leaving behind the stiff disappointment of debut The Waves . Ar...

  What do we have here? A Synthwave and Black Metal crossover. Is this possible? Anything in music is but that doesn't always lead to su...

Memory is a thickle thing. Essential, yet always fading, it shapes our reality in many ways. Fortunately this was harmless, a little shock t...

  Without the punch and powwow of tuneful Pop sensibilities she would develop later on Cranekiss , Tamaryn's debut leans hard on its tex...

  It took but one listen of Cranekiss's euphoric Shoegazing title track to win me over. Spotify's algorithm has figured me out! Serv...

Accepting an algorithmically generation suggestion from Spotify, I was pleasantly surprised. American Indie Rock outfit Ovlov's third al...

I prefer to refrain from discussing singles here on the blog yet I find myself unable to escape this pair of songs. As a lone release with n...