Cause & Effect : Pinkshinyultrablast

Cause: American Shoegazers Astrobrite started in the mid '90s as a one man bedroom project by Scott Cortez of loveliescrushing that has long since morphed into to an occasionally still active band.

Their third full length release is entitled Pinkshinyultrablast.

Effect: Meet Pinkshinyultrablast, a St. Petersburg, Russian shoegaze group so inspired by Astrobrite that they named themselves after the third record in their discography. Pinkshinyultrablast have a brand new album out (their second) entitled Grandfeathered on Club AC30.

2015 Favorite : Eerie Summer

Do you like to cuddle? Do you like lo-fi, dreamy, bedroom pop? Do love female fronted C86 twee bands (think of the early days of Camera Obscura or The Concretes)? If you answer yes to any of these questions, I present to you a charming boy/girl duo called Eerie Summer.

I don't know how a band that features one member from Russia and the other from Finland came to be, but I am sure glad they did. Sometimes a little mystery is nice.