30 Mar 2015

Gods in the TV reviews Shit and Shine – 54 Synth-Brass, 38 Metal Guitar, 65 Cathedral


Shit and Shine - 54 Synth-Brass, 38 Metal Guitar, 65 Cathedral 
(Rocket Recordings)

Shit and Shine don’t make pop music. On their latest album ‘54 Synth-Brass, 38 Metal Guitar, 65 Cathedral’ they’ve have crafted 50 minutes of drone-like repetitive beats with wonky vocals, that not only pushes the listener’s boundaries but asks the question ‘what is music? While this is quite a grandiose statement, and like all grandiose statements, there is an element of truth to it.

Since their inception in the mid-2000’s Shit and Shine ($&$) founder Craig Clouse has mixed garage rock with elements of drone, Krautrock and the Avant-Garde; at their heart they are a psychedelic band, though...

Read the rest of this great 4/5 review here: Gods in the TV

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