Thursday 24th June 2010

GLITTERING SHIPWRECKS – “ENDINGS”/”CAR RIDE”

Yo La Tengo are not dead, but their spectre looms large throughout Glittering Shipwrecks‘ free-to-download EP, Monuments.

Ida and Georgia haunt each spidery reverb-heavy guitar line here, vocals transmitted from the same moonlit suburban purgatory that adorns the cover of And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out.

And there’s that same interalised escapism too, pushing inwards to shut off the world, rather than running outwards to be somewhere or someone else. It’s in that approach that Glittering Shipwrecks sidestep pastiche or parody, instead suggesting a shared feeling that lingers on sharper than any other band’s ghost.

Glittering Shipwrecks – “Endings”

Glittering Shipwrecks – “Car Ride”

(Photo: Krystal E.)