Guitars drenched in delay, voices suspended in reverb, and walls of sound that stretch into infinity: Noise Reverie Sessions summons a trinity of shoegaze alchemists for a night of celestial distortion and spectral melody. Eosine (BE), Resplandor (NL), and Catch The Breeze (DK) converge in The Hague under the aegis of Automatic Music, a label and concert promoter dedicated to amplifying the blissed-out burn of the underground.
Expect cascading guitars like dying streetlights, rhythms that churn and swell like a restless tide, and vocals that drift between the corporeal and the otherworldly. A sonic baptism where the boundary between artist and audience dissolves in feedback and psychedelic bliss.
Noise Reverie Sessions is the latest offering from Automatic Music, the minds behind Amsterdam’s Automatic Noise Festival, keeping the spirit of shoegaze alive in the Lowlands and beyond.
Eosine, a Belgian four-piece out of Liège, brews a heady mix of shoegaze shimmer and progressive sprawl, with Elena Lacroix’s voice cutting through the haze like a siren in a storm. Their sound, somewhere between My Bloody Valentine’s blissful chaos and Lush’s gauzy grandeur, has set Belgium’s underground ablaze. After tearing through stages with The Haunted Youth and DIRK., they’ve carved their name into festival lineups from Les Nuits Botanique to Left Of The Dial. Signing with Mayway Records, they now steer toward their debut album, but first comes Liminal, an EP forged from the fire of feminist defiance.
Resplandor drapes sorrow in shimmering distortion, their 2022 release Tristeza sculpted under the deft hands of Robin Guthrie, Cocteau Twins’ sonic architect, and fine-tuned by Slowdive’s Simon Scott. Their reverberations reached cathedrals of sound in 2023 when they opened for The Cure’s Shows Of A Lost World Tour, turning melancholia into momentum. From SXSW to Grauzone, from Amsterdam’s underground to Lima’s luminous nights, their presence lingers like a spectral echo. Sharing stages with Slowdive, The Jesus & Mary Chain, and The House of Love, Resplandor readies a European tour in 2025, carrying their signature haze into the future.
Danish trio Catch The Breeze return with Hope Has a Place, their third and most assured statement yet—an album where Nordic shoegaze collides with dream pop’s spectral embrace and art rock’s grandeur. Written in the wake of 2022’s Into the Wide, these songs unfurl like fog over fjords, shifting from hushed reveries to towering crescendos. Recorded at Aarhus’ Feedback Studio with Magnus Vad and finessed by Morten Bue (MEW, Kira Skov), the album revels in texture, with Lowly’s Kasper Staub adding synth flourishes. This is music that maps beauty in the space between light and shadow.
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