If you’ve been missing The Daysleepers since the cruel taunt that was ‘Dream Within A Dreamworld’ 3 years ago, word on the street is that they’re releasing an honest-to-goodness album this year. Take it from DKFM.
I am yet to see news of said album out in the wild, so forgive me if I don’t hold my breath.
2017 has been kind in other ways, however. Shoegaze superpower, Russia, has given us what is NOT a cheap imitation of the Daysleepers BUT RATHER a worthwhile adversary.
Encounters by Life on Venus is one of the most authentic shoegaze albums to have come out this year.
And how fortuitously do they just happen to hark back to the days of ‘Drowned in a Sea of Sound’ and ‘Hide Your Eyes’
Listen to ‘There Will Be Blood’ and tell me it’s not ‘Run’ and ‘Stars On Fire’ having a session in the sheets.
Pick up Encounters here. It’s pay what you want, but it’s always nice if you pay a little for it.
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Hi,
It’s Jeff from the Daysleepers. So glad I found this looking up reviews about one of my favorite new shoegaze bands Life on Venus! Definitely love this band and I have been listening to this album non-stop since I found it. Actually our drummer Mario found it and passed it around. I’d say it’s my favorite shoegaze album of the year…maybe tied with Slowdive’s new amazing album. I reached out to these Russian folks through their bandcamp page and they did say they were influenced by The Daysleepers…which is of course highly flattering to me. I can’t wait to hear more from them.
With The Daysleepers it looks like you’ll have to hold your breath until 2018 for our full length album “Creation” which is about halfway done at this point BUT we do have two new singles “Creation” & “Sundiver” now available on bandcamp, iTunes, Spotify, Amazon….and so on. Our 3rd single “Foreverpeople” will be out in about a month…so this should hold you for a little while.
Thanks for the kind words!
-JK