***"KINDLING is comprised of my good buddies STEPHEN and ANDY who also play in WMass hardcore outfit AMPERE, as well as GRETSCHEN (who plays guitar and sings) and ANDREW, who plays bass. I can tell you these people have the most solid musical knowledge I know… While it would be easy to compare them to My Bloody Valentine, a closer listen will also led you to find evident traces of Superchunk guitar riffs, Teenage Fanclub and Jesus & Mary Chain melodies to serve a very personnal and unique sound… They blur they dreamy melodies into a wall of a massive fuzz sounds with a a pop sensibility rarely found when the volume and attack ends up this far in the red. While they spent a week at Sonelab in rural Easthampton, MA with JUSTIN PIZZOFERRATO (Dinosaur Jr, Pixies, Speedy Ortiz, Sonic Youth, etc.) to record their first full length Galaxies for the amazing No Idea Records in Florida, they cut 6 extra songs for this Euro-only release."
LP $15.00
01/20/2017
***"Summer is not generally shoegaze season—it’s hard to really submerge in a sea of guitars when you’re already swimming in humidity to begin with. But the best dream-pop isn’t weather-dependent, and Everywhere Else, first full-length from Easthampton, Massachusetts sonic storm-chasers KINDLING, is worth diving into even on the thickest of August afternoons. Everywhere Else pairs vocals as sweet as the best Pity Sex or My Bloody Valentine jams with a heaviness that goes beyond black-metallic, drums and guitars bringing the attack as much from below as above”—SPIN
LP $16.00
08/26/2016