My Review: The Shallows - Channels

 The Shallows - Channels 

When a song makes you addicted, you discover the pleasantness of the only acceptable toxicity: that towards music. The Boston band has given birth to a crystalline jewel, which emanates light within our listening. Delicate, gentle, dreamy, with its notes it activates the circuit of our pleasure, of a listening that makes us small because we are cuddled by it. Shoegaze is joined by the elegant Dreampop presence, for a lullaby that in the refrain wakes our minds completely and makes us think that the new day can only be beautiful. The drumming is a work of art, the bassist's work is a black-and-white photograph of how simplicity must once again take over the music, and he does it beautifully. The vocals, then, sound like the perfect marriage of two superstars like Rachel Goswell and Krissy Vanderwoude: the poetry of the singing is the merino wool blanket that can maintain the temperature of this sweetness, which is a slow, deep kiss.

When a song bewitches the mind, we know that we have arrived at a sensational rendezvous: eternity is already possible in this earthly life... 

Alex Dematteis

Musicshockworld

Salford

3rd  March 2023

https://theshallowsboston.bandcamp.com/track/channels