Takes me back to my high school classroom during the days of binging Inio Asano's old manga scanlations before anything was licensed. At that time, I was discovering many kinds of Asian shoegaze, but I've never heard anything like this. Makes me think of Pasteboard, Supecar, and Midnight Pingpong a bit, and it's funny bc the first two I listen have blue album covers too. Lu
I was shocked with the small electronic elements on it when I was a teenager. I stopped listening to them a while ago, but when I bought the record I was hooked for a week.
Steigerungslied is my fave track of them while Revolter and Disco Hijack coming close sssinistre
Toronto band Respire deliver a post-hardcore tour de force on the largest scale possible, orchestrally rich and incessantly uncompromising. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 6, 2021