Teenage Wrist - Earth Is A Black Hole - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The world may seem like a pretty strange place right now, but if nothing else that's forced us into realizing that being human is a shared experience. That sentiment lies at the core of Earth Is A Black Hole, the second full-length from the Los Angeles rock act Teenage Wrist. The album also marks the group's first since the departure of former bassist/vocalist Kamtin Mohager last year and sees the duo of guitarist Marshall Gallagher stepping up as frontman, with longtime drummer Anthony Salazar backing him up in spectacular fashion. InchAs soon as we found out Kam was exiting, I just started writing,Inch Gallagher explains. InchI wanted to keep this band going and we didn't know exactly what that would look like, so I wrote two songs and demoed them myself to see if everyone was still on board.Inch Those songs turned out to be the jangly power ballad InchYellowbellyInch and spacey rocker InchWear U DownInch-and with that, a new era of Teenage Wrist was born.The artistic liberation of this lineup change, coupled with the past two years the band spent touring alongside genre-smashing acts such as Thrice, allowed Teenage Wrist to expand on the shoegazing sound that helped establish them as one of the most exciting rock bands around today. In order to capture this sound, the band enlisted Colin Brittain (Basement, A Day to Remember), whose production style merged perfectly with what Teenage Wrist were trying to accomplish with this album. From rich, guitar-driven songs like InchTaste Of GasolineInch and InchHigh AgainInch to the atmospheric ambience of InchStellaInch and syncopated aggression of InchEarth Is A Black Hole,Inch any of these songs could crossover into the mainstream without alienating Teenage Wrist's fervent fanbase. While they are still influenced by bands like Swervedriver and My Bloody Valentine-most evidently on the swirling anthem InchSilverspoon,Inch