A British band from the 1990s that blended shoegaze textures with hard rock muscle.
If you're new to them, start with 'Black Metallic' to hear what they're about. 'All Of That' from their later work shows they kept that balance of melody and noise right to the end.
They had a knack for wrapping Rob Dickinson's airy vocals around walls of guitar noise, and 'Black Metallic' from their 1993 album 'Chrome' is the perfect example. It's the song that stuck, a seven-minute slow burn that feels both heavy and weightless. Tracks like 'Crank' and 'Salt' showed they could shift from abrasive rock to something more melodic without losing that core sound.
They formed in England in 1990 and released their first album, 'Ferment,' in 1992. After 'Chrome' in 1993 and a few more albums in the mid-90s, they broke up in 1997. There were a couple of reunion shows in 2010, but the band never fully got back together.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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