The Voices - The Sound of Young America

I remember first hearing The Voices sometime in 2005 I want to say. Their debut album was either about ready to come out or it had already come out. I am not quite sure; I just recall enjoying their music. After that though it seemed like I didn’t see much about the album or the band really after its release. Granted, it never occurred to me to ever use that handy thing called Google. In actuality, with them basically flying under the radar the whole time I kind of forgot about them as well. So as one could imagine, I was pretty pleased and surprised to discover a couple months ago that the band was putting out a new album entitled The Sound of Young America through My Kung Fu Recordings, which has since come out this past August.

The Voices are a trio that is from Port Talbot in South Wales that are highly influenced by the shoegaze sounds of the early 90’s. For a trio their sound is expansive and compared to their first self-titled album, their latest The Sound of Young America reaches out further into the depths of space and drifting waves of feedback. With seven songs that clock in under right around forty three minutes, The Voices are more about a churning repetitiveness that slowly snowballs into an explosive mixture of feedback laden noise and shimmering waves of beauty. While the slow build and payoff method of The Voices may grate on some, I don’t have any doubts that fans of the genre will appreciate the latest effort from this fine and severely underappreciated band. And yes, I am just as guilty for forgetting about them in the past. However, I am hoping maybe this time with The Sound of Young America the band will stick as they’ve obviously outdone themselves here. For those out there looking for good new shoegaze, then do check this out.

The Voices - I'll Always Be Within You When There's No One Left Inside [MP3]

For anyone looking to pick The Sound of Young America up, then head on over to Tonevendor. Definitely one of the better shoegaze related albums that I’ve heard this year, it’s a keeper indeed.