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The ocean is deep and full of mystery, rich with
life and layers of blue. It can be calm and memorizing,
and then crash, pulling you in as you stand at its
door. In this landlocked city, the debut 2006
EP is the closest you’ll get to that
experience until you board a plane to the coast.
A Shoreline Dream is where nature laden atmospheres and electronics
meet, with languid, hallucinated states of being
(“Motherly Advice”) that rise into
apocalyptic clashes of layered beauty (“Projections”).
Gleaming tides from Ride’s Nowhere echo
into mysterious Icelandic lands of Sigur Ros,
pulling you to the volume knob so the …Dream
can enter every pore.
The is the next musical chapter for Ryan
Policky (vocals, guitar, keyboards, production)
and Gabriel Ratliff (drums),
after Denver’s Drop The Fear dissolved last
year. Erik Jeffreis (guitar)
and Enoc Torraca (bass) make
the set complete. While the band’s name
fits their sound like a glove, it’s also
not difficult to figure out where the group’s
Latenight Weeknight label name emerged, since
one would guess that daytime jobs make sleeping
a luxury (such is the life of a rockstar, heh?).
This is a fantastic start-out-of-the-gate for
A Shoreline Dream, and after the CD release party
for 2006 EP this Thursday, May 18 at hi-dive (with
Killfix and Robot Ate Me), the next steps will
be a late summer release of their full length
and then to hopefully hit the road in the fall.
Check out the websites to take a listen or pick
up the EP at local, independent retailers.
www.ashorelinedream.com
www.myspace.com/ashorelinedream
www.latenightweeknight.com
-Kim Owens, May 16, 2006
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