Tuesday, April 13, 2010

The Kissaway Trail

Add Date: April 13

Artist: The Kissaway Trail

Album: Sleep Mountain

Label: Bella Union

Genre: Rock, shoegaze, indie pop

Comments: British tastemaker NME has described The Kissaway Trail as a "gutsier Pains of Being Pure at Heart." It's an amusing, if not entirely accurate, description of this Danish band, which will release its third LP, Sleep Mountain, stateside on April 20. There are certainly elements of shoegaze in The Kissaway Trail's music, but there's also plenty of the driving indie rock of, say, Arcade Fire, as well as the indie pop of Swedish acts like Loney Dear, and the experimental dream pop that brings to mind another Danish band, Mew. In other words, Sleep Mountain has something for everyone, and it's all very well done. Start with "SDP" (the opening track, which Pitchfork called a "six minute monster"), "Beat Your Heartbeat," "New Year" and "New Lipstick."

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