Right all bets are off. The Peruvian Shoegaze album of the year is here. I imagine you probably weren't looking for one. But here it is anyway. Sueno Purpura break loose on their sound pedals and crank it up to 11, (one higher) on Souvenir.
The whole recurring wave of Shoegazing is a slightly strange one for me. The original scene broke in my last year at University in 1990 and was largely mocked in the music press on the UK at the time but its waves reverberate everywhere 35 years onwards and now kids in Lima sit at home and listen in awe to Ride, Chapterhouse and Revolver records.
There's something faintly Prog about Souvenir.. No wonder. There was something faintly Prog about Shoegaze. This is a record that is worth devouring at single sittings. A veritable feast.
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