Record Label: S/R
Genre: Indie
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Brown Shoe builds to a crescendo almost immediately on their first song, assuring you that although they’re from the branch of textured, psychedelic, lofi indie like Mogwai and Sigur Ros, they’re not afraid to rock. Indeed, they have drums and vocals and they’re right there up front, not pushed behind the normal instrumentalism of lulling space rock.

But this isn’t corny shoegazing indie-pop – there is something beautifully hypnotic about them, which they manage at a pace about four times faster than my gods of hypno-indie Galaxie 500. It’s amazing – they defy the physics of space rock by rocking out and yet also soothing your tensions with celestial majesty.

Brown Shoe does slip up with a couple of lengthy dull tunes, and if you’re in the mood to REALLY rock, Brown Shoe won’t make it. But they succeed at what they do, which is more than I can say for my stab at “rock journalism.”

Bottom Line: Pretty space rock that rarely bores or self-indulges.
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