My Music Path

Holy Fawn is a shoegaze/doomgaze band from Phoenix, Arizona and after their awesome debut album 'Death Spells' in 2018, they released a surprise EP 'The Black Moon' in January of this year. Can they create that same feeling I got when I heard 'Loveless' for the first time?  Tracklist: 1. Candy 2. Tethered 3. Blood Pact The short answer, they do. The long answer is this entire review haha. For me, the idea of shoegaze is first trying to feel some superficial emotion, which opens up much deeper lying ones. Call it euphoric sadness, or cathartic, in the end, you’re addicted to that feeling and you dive into the genre and never come out. That’s what happened to me when I saw a fragment of a noisy, distorted clip on MTV back in the ’90s. I really liked the ocean of guitar noise sound and the angelic vocals. Years later I found out that I saw the 'Only Shallow' clip from My Bloody Valentine. Because of that, I started a journey into that genre and it has...

Sadness, the solo project of multi-instrumentalist Damián Antón Ojeda released his fifteenth (!) full-length album 'I Want To Be There' on April 7th. The album will be released on vinyl on September 21st. Tracklist 1. In The Distant Travels 2. I Want To Be With You 3. Moments 4. I Want To Be There 5. You Dance Like The June Sky 6. Somewhere The Mexican-born American founded Sadness in 2014 and calls himself Elisa in this project. Given his many other music projects, including an improv jazz piano project, an ambient project and a post-metal / hardcore project, we can say that this guy breathes music. And he is only 22. With Sadness he tries to bridge the gap between shoegaze, ambient and black metal and he has succeeded greatly. 'I Want To Be There' lasts 40 minutes and in that time he immerses you in a sea of ​​guitar walls, tremolo picking, colourful, sad ambient sounds, and black metal vocals from afar. The album is more comfo...