“La Maga” is the bewitching new fourth single by the young London-based Shoegaze /Dream Pop five-piece sadplanet, comprised of Kyra Ho (Lead Vocals), Nick Rainey (Guitar), Nick Rainey (Synthesizer), Aiden Knowles (Guitar), Dan Lawrence (Bass), and Jeff Baker (Drums), we highlighted last year.
The band in a space of a handful of songs has slowly molded and developed their own influences, spanning Cocteau Twins, Slowdive, Mogwai, Stereolab, and Sigur Rós, to hit every chord with passion.
An invitation to pick oneself up in order to shine through a lens of feeling and friendship, “La Maga” painstakingly coalesces bedazzling, reflective dream-pop landscapes, chiseled by flourishing and enveloping crystalline guitar textures, with giddily emotive post-rock edged breadth, rich in atmospheric charm.
Steady hypnotic drum patterns sway and pulse alongside warm, humming bass lines, within a deep, as it is shimmering and hazy, lush sea of delay and reverb, bathed in ghostly, flowing synth shivers, to pull up and swiftly soar into an emotional crescendo of featherlight guitar strums and freeing sweeping swells of trembling gleaming electricity, seamlessly washing over gorgeously vibrant, honeyed vocals, drifting and radiating with softly heartfelt spoken words in a heavenly interplay.
In an overcrowded panorama of bands which deal with Shoegaze, and Dream Pop nuanced with Electronica, sadplanet, moreover under the experienced technical wings of Ben Easton (deary) and Simon Scott (Slowdive), stand out, with a right laid-back attitude, as a band to have a close look for.
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