AP Track Review
Acid Wash from the Catatonic Suns (from Allentown, PA) is the dreamy psychedelic frayed single from the bands first studio album "Aphelion". AW has a chill floating sound with shoe gaze elements and post punk crescendos. As I listened to the psyche post punk of "Aphelion", in some ways, I thought of the dreamy post punk /dream punk sound of Yuck (the Daniel Blumberg years) and I really love that sound. Blumberg's Yuck had a fine sense of romance deep in the heaviness of the post punk and I hear that within Catatonic Suns' aesthetic as well. Within that romance wave there are elements of grunge / heavy post rock too- blended inside the post punk motif. In fact, listen to other songs (Electric Plain and Spina Bifida) on Aphelion and you think of Nirvana, Soundgarden and Stone Temple Pilots.
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Robb Donker
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
Acid Wash was first featured on the Catatonic Suns lo-fi self titled demo. This version is off of their proper debut studio album Aphelion. The song flows in and out of a sort of dream state until the listener is "awoken" by the buildup towards the end. The song then climaxes with a wash of guitar and ambiance. Acid Wash was released on November 1st, serving as the first single for the album.
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