Tearwave

Tearwave

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 16, 2007)
• Original Release Date: July 16, 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Projekt
• ASIN: B000P46Q9U
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #153,186 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Review
Shoegazer, or dream-pop is a genre that had lots of adherents and fans back in the 90s. With the disappearances of bands like Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine, and Love Spirals Downward (now known as Love Spirals), fans of the lush, dreamy soundtracks that these bands produced were left to languish and wait for a band like Tearwave.

Hailing from Buffalo, NY, this band takes the dream-like viscosity of those past bands and produces a tear-squeezing, blood-freezing original that will have you feeling as if dream-pop never left. And if the style did disappear, who cares...it s back now with very powerful, and associative differences. Tearwave is beyond dream-pop; it is a frighteningly addictive walk through a glittering ice-cave that will entomb you as you descend into its heart.

There is a haunting element that runs throughout the Tearwave debut, reminiscent of the ethereal beauty of the Suzanne Perry years of Love Spirals Downward, with more than a hint of that dark, cold desolation that runs through Lycia s ambient masterpiece, Cold. Cold led you into the deepest recesses of an endless frozen wasteland of emotion, creating a visually relentless white landscape of no redemption and no exit. Tearwave is part of that inescapable mythology. The music itself is a wall of sound and melody that is made all the more heart-rending by the vocals of Jennifer Manganiello, the Cure-like repetition of Joe Villella s surging bass-lines, the soft rhythmic beats of John Stephanski s drums and percussion, and the hypnotically enveloping guitars and keyboards of Doug White. It is also Doug White s expert production of Tearwave that makes this excellent debut what it is, a masterwork from a band who will only get better.

Music is a canvas that, if you crawl up into the midst of it, you will be engulfed by the stories within. Music can evoke images, and then take those images to whisk you to places within your own heart, however, dark, sad, happy, or bleak. It takes a band of immense power to paint those extreme aural travelogues full of peculiarities. Tearwave is one of those. In their striking debut, Tearwave has set the groundwork to become a classic, a build that defies category and description. Rating: 4 out of 5. -Matt Rowe --Music TAP:

Product Description
Shoegaze is alive and well in Tearwave. A decade after bands like Lush, Slowdive and Ride rose and fell into obscurity, Tearwave comes to fill the void.

Projekt is proud to announce their new signing: Tearwave, a gorgeous Shoegazer / Dream-Pop quartet from one of the snowiest and depressed cities in America: Buffalo, NY.

Shoegaze is alive and well in Tearwave. A decade after bands like Lush, Slowdive and Ride rose and fell into obscurity, Tearwave comes to fill the void. Not just a re-creation of things tried and true, but a decade wiser and mature. Tearwave integrates sounds echoed from the spectrum of Shoegaze music, yet rarely mimics their influences; Tearwave takes their cues then creates a whole new supernova of sound for a current generation of indie-rock listeners.

Jenn Manganiello?s luscious vocals dig deep into the listener?s subconscious soul with her red-wine melodies and the distant warmth of her lyrics. Doug White?s guitars and keyboards soothe and drive with melodic darkness. John Stephanski?s arsenal of vintage drums and percussive instruments lay a pounding foundation while Joe Villella's solid bass battens down the hatches to round out Tearwave?s monumental sound.

Tearwave?s compact, tight and driving songs are infused with an uneasy haunting mood; their music is dark and moody with an edge of troubling inspiration. This spellbinding sound has the genre?s enthusiasts spreading a frenzied buzz about Tearwave. U.S. and Europe Shoegaze and Darkwave message boards and blogs have been full of Tearwave references since the band?s appearance on MySpace just a few months ago.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Shoegaze with bite, August 27, 2007

By	Jack Shear - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Tearwave make music for the days when shadows lengthen on the walls. Life in upstate New York appears to have seeped into the band's soul as their debut album is rife with bleak winters, sullen desperation, and glimmers of beauty just gone by. However, Tearwave do not simply mine the tropes of the shoegaze genre in imitation of other group's past glories. Rather, they offer a few unique twists on the familiar territory of ethereal goth; the guitar work features a nice blend of deep, hazy chorus and stark acoustics, and the percussion is unusually strong. And Jenn Manganiello's voice is as lovely and melodic as anyone working in a similar vein. At times distant, at times viscerally immediate, Tearwave's dream-like shoegaze will appeal to parched ears thirsting for shimmering textures and melancholic musings.

5.0 out of 5 stars I'm very happy!, July 13, 2009

By	Justarasta (Coral Gables, FL United States) - See all my reviews

I've been a big fan of Mira, Love Spirals Downward, Autums' Grey Solace etc for some time. Not much has gotten my attention of late in the Shoegazing genre until I heard of Tearwave. The music is a great combination of wonderful vocals overlaid over spiraling guitars. Solid music with a fair amount of variation. If you happen to be trying to decide between this and their second CD go with this one. Not only are the songs more varied but the sonics are much better. While not Mira Apart this CD gets plenty cloes for me.

4.0 out of 5 stars Good first effort, February 26, 2008

By	Bradford A. Harkness "Deadweezyl" (California, Missouri, Ohio, Korea and else where) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Tearwave is a good album by what could become a very good band. The group caught my attention when a review likened them to LUSH, one of my favorite bands, so I listened to some clips and decided to buy it. I wouldn't say LUSh comes to mind exactly, nor would I put too much similarity with the "shoe gaze" style music of the late 80's and 90's, but the band has a deeply effect driven sound and female vocals that do share some of the qualities of other bands. At times the music reminds me of Cocteau Twins and even Amber Asylum or Lovespirals Downwards but to make too many comparisons would be unfair as the group offers some new twists of thier own and definately has thier own unique style, both lyricall and aurally. It is a pretty record, a good one for falling asleep too (if you can let yourself, I have a hard time sometimes becasue I want to ehar the next song or one again)or for driving or anything. I like alot of the Projekt stuff, mainly Lovespirals and Faith andd the Muse and the like, and this sia good addition to a collection if you like the haunting female vocal melodies- though the feel is not "goth" (thankfully) or pop or anything. Tearwave could easily find themselves creating a niche of thier own in the music community and I am anxious to see what they do next to follow up a superb first album.