The Sky Drops swim with the fishes

Wow, apparently it’s been over three years since I covered The Sky Drops. How time flies when you’re blogging. I actually hadn’t heard anything by them in a good long while, so hearing Swimming with Fishes brought it all flooding back. Nothing seems to have really changed with The Sky Drops formula. They are still a band that clearly likes their shoegaze. There is one critical difference though; they’ve got really bloody good at what they do.

Like all good shoegaze, the fuzzy guitars are the stars here, bleeding all over the track like a shot hobo on a railway line. Muted vocals hold it all together, but they never make the mistake of being too drowned out. The balance is just about as perfect as you can get. Now, to be clear, there was nothing wrong with The Sky Drops those three years ago. But this just sounds so much assured. This isn’t the sound of a new band any longer. It’s the sound of a band that knows exactly what they want to be.

Bourgeois Beat will be self-released by the band on August 11. Which just happens to be tomorrow, pop fans.