WL//WH Track Of The Day: THE SHALLOWS “Red Shift”

Track Of The Day THE SHALLOWS

BostonMassachusetts-based Dream Pop band The Shallows, made of guitarist Brad Emerson (ex-Strangeways, The Milling Gowns), drummer Jason Keisch (ex-SCUBA, ex-Strangeways), bassist Ben Didsbury (r|verghxst) and vocalist Jess Baggia (This Bliss), displays a deeply immersive, elegantly textured shoegaze-y sound throughout the new single “Red Shift,” of cinematic, spacious dreaminess, where atmospheric and emotional elements weave seamlessly and effortlessly together.

In astrophysics, “Red Shift” describes the phenomenon where light from a distant object stretches toward longer wavelengths toward the red end of the electromagnetic spectrum, as the object moves away from the observer. The new single riffs on this cosmic imagery to explore a love that once felt close, gravitational, and inevitable, but is now drifting outward. Redshift is the measurable sign of motion, clear evidence of the universe, and love, expanding away.

Shuffling drum beats and warm humming bass lines unceasingly pulse, to nourish a glistening constellation of willowy guitar abstractions, free-flowing in sidereal vortices, to echo in an endless rarified, dim space with crystalline, resonant reverberations, crisp and ephemeral at the same time, like the feeling of love slowly drifting away from soft yet piercing, perpetually melancholic female vocalizations.

The Shallows‘ new single, “Red Shift,” is included in the new EP, “Peace in the Pain,” just released on ltd. CD and vinyl formats via Shore Dive Records.

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