My Review: Meena - Newspapers

Meena - Newspapers

Do you realise, then, that Manchester is alive, capable, despite the fact the world no longer attributes the right value to it, of continually being present at musical peaks?

Here is another marvellous example of refined grace, a band who have now reached their third release, after their debut with EP in 2020, followed by Can't See in 2021.

Newspapers is the continuation of a sonic and stylistic journey that navigates among shoegaze effusions supported by poetic Indie Rock sensations, resulting in an urban design that, flying from Manchester, lands on the sea of great sensitivity.

It is remarkable to see a hip hop-style drum machine governing the flow of guitars swollen with reverberations, as are the vocals, in a dense fog in which the bass, sick and distorted, completes a powerful amalgam. 

Able to conjugate, mix, invent a new stylistic approach, the Mancunian quartet is a dew of noise placed inside a muffled electronic basin, which as a final result gives a shoegaze cloud of rare beauty, but no musical style can define this magic: Manchester still lives and pulses with delicacies that cannot be silenced. 

Alex Dematteis

Musicshockworld

Salford

23rd January 2023

https://meenaband.bandcamp.com/album/newspapers