Lowsunday – were a band comprised of founding member, Shane Sahene (guitarist/vocalist), Bobby Spell (bass), Shawn Bann (guitar/keyboard) & A.T. Vish (drums), hail from Pittsburgh, USA and whose 1999 album “Elesgiem” has been remastered and was re-released in 2024 to commemorate its 25th anniversary. An impressive album, “Elesgiem (2024 re-master”, has been selected as The Manc Review’s “Album of The Month”.
If you have ever wondered where the visceral vampires reside, or where the sombre spirits linger and dissipate into apparitional air, then listening to “Elesgiem” by Lowsunday, may offer you the answers and provide the key to their secret hideaways. It’s a sublime work of art, that immediately transports you to the nebulous places of indie-rock, levitating in post-punk purgatory, whilst scrawling through the misty meadows of synth-pop and inhaling the dry ice of new wave. Comprising 15 mesmerising tracks, “Elesgiem” evokes a full gamut of emotion, that transcends a sense of moonbeam melancholy, and esoteric elation, which intertwines with the multi-faceted genres of alternative rock.
It’s an ethereal delight, an album that unlocks the pathways, the gauzy gateways and pensive portals of post-punk, that have been hidden and immortalised in a vault of innovation and nostalgia. Originally released in 1999, “Elesgiem” has been remastered and alchemised for a new generation, whilst realigning in the current celestial skies of ethereal–rock. As an album, “Elesgiem”, takes you on a musical voyage, lying low in the seabed of shoegaze, colliding with the effervescent bubbles of dreampop, whilst ebbing and flowing through, the fuzzy foam of neo-psychedelia. It’s a full-on affair, that showcases the high calibre of musicianship of Lowsunday.
Sonically seductive, “Elesgiem”, unravels its many layers with a cool breeze of beguiling beauty and haunting mysticism. It’s a hypnotic haze, a transfiguration of seasonal shifts, ethereal enlightenment, streaming a spectrum of states, that embodies a whole range of musical mutations. Through the aloof vocals, “Elesgiem”, orbits in telescopic solitude, peering through the lens of glamour and glitz, amidst the floating debris, falling from the crestfallen clouds.
Here is an album, that slow-burns a billion light years away, on a frequency of fuzzy bliss and dwells in the arcane ambience of goth-rock. Through the sheer guitar dexterity, subtle shifts and pensive preening, Lowsunday, redefine the bonafide goth band, whilst opening up the airways for a variety of sub-genres. From the razor riffs, to the shimmery strums to the spectral synths, brooding basslines and tribal beats. Lowsunday raises the bar, creating an album, that jams in the Batcave’s of neo-folk, spinning from the shadows of art-rock, whilst navigating through the wilderness of darkwave.
Think The Jesus and Mary Chain, Beach House, The Psychedelic Furs, The Horrors, The Cure, The Chameleons, Mazzy Star, Cocteau Twins, early Verve, Bauhaus, The Stone Roses, My Bloody Valentine and The Velvet Underground, forming a cosmic cult, an ancestral alliance, of ingenious showmanship, reviving the impressionistic artistry, abstract motifs, and blended palettes that colourise the darkness from a distant horizon.
Track List:
1 Wallpaper Room (2024 remaster)
2 She Follows Rain (2024 remaster)
3 Zuff (2024 remaster)
4 Magic Memory (2024 remaster)
5 Elevate Her (2024 remaster)
6 Shine… (2024 remaster)
7 …To Sleep (2024 remaster)
8 Alone Without (2024 remaster)
9 Human (2024 remaster)
10 Closer Closer (2024 remaster)
11 Daystar (2024 remaster)v 12 Disassembly (2024 remaster)
13 Diamond Rain Drain (2024 Mix)
14 Letter from the Moonbase (2024 Mix)
15 Disassembly (2024 Remix)
“Elesgiem (2024 re-master)” by Lowsunday, is available via all digital platforms and can be purchased via Projekt Records Facebook