MP3: Nervous Breakdown
MP3:I’m Gonna Try
Shimmering Stars share a new track from their debut LP, Violent Hearts, out today on Hardly Art. “Nervous Breakdown” is a positive theme song to losing one’s mind that couples an expansive vocal take with claustrophobic lyrics about being unable to escape. While Shimmering Stars formed in Vancouver, BC only one year ago, they have quickly placed themselves at the forefront of a new retro current that is gaining attention for its captivating and familiar sound.
The band has a release show set for the 16th in Vancouver, with more fall dates coming soon.
Shimmering Stars is a four-piece dream pop act from Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Shimmering Stars’ music embodies an attempt at drawing out and illuminating the subtle darkness inherent in the seemingly wholesome, innocent music of the 1950s and 60s. The result filters older influences like the Everly Brothers, Del Shannon, Phil Spector, and Bo Diddley through a contemporary indie lens. Songs about being in love, not being in love, the painfully modern condition of floating in a state of suspended adolescence – all tinted with the slight self-deprication of knowing how trite it is to be writing songs about these things at all.
Shimmering Stars create reverb-soaked pop songs, full of arching harmonies, pulsing rhythms, and exquisite melodies, often with dark undertones, all while adhering to the timeless structural qualities of the seminal songs that inspired them. The songs are haunting and sublime – at times blissful, and at others heart breaking.
The band began as a recording project in Spring 2010. After stumbling upon some old live footage of the Everly Brothers, Rory McClure holed up in his parent’s garage in Kamloops, British Columbia to record the first demos. That first recording environment rendered Shimmering Stars’ distinctly dusty atmospheric sound and established a conscious insertion into the garage music continuum.
Violent Hearts is the debut LP from Shimmering Stars, released by Hardly Art.
Shimmering Stars is:
Rory McClure – Guitar, Vox
Andrew Dergousoff – Drums, Vox
Brent Sasaki – Bass, Vox
Shimmering Stars :: Violent Hearts
(Hardly Art) :: Street date: Sept. 13, 2011
- Believe
- I’m Gonna Try
- No One
- East Van Girls
- Into The Sea
- Nervous Breakdown
- Privilege
- Sun’s Going Down
- Sabians
- Dancing To Music I Hate
- I Don’t Wanna Know
- Other Girls
- Did I Lose You
- Walk Away
Tour Dates
9/16 – Vancouver, BC – TheWaldorf *
9/24 – Vancouver, BC – Red Cat Records in-store
* – w/ Seapony