Noisy and just the right amount of mopey

Nothing may be a shoegaze band, but don‰’t lump them in with just every other group of twenty-somethings who‰’ve listened to Loveless a few too many times. With their roots in hardcore and punk music, Nothing bring a bit of a welcome edge to a genre currently crowded by a mob of similar sounding mopey kids. Everything you want from a shoegaze band is here, from the flood of guitars to the dripping reverb to the barely whispered, lyric-less vocals. They‰’re all here, but with the edition of furious drumming, fuzzed out guitars, and power-chord progressions that would satisfy any self-respecting “punk‰Û. The finest moments on Guilty of Everything come when they fully embrace their heritage, emphasizing the sheer weight of the music as on “Bent Nail‰Û, which begins as a fairly standard garage-punk song and devolves beautifully into a wash of noise approximately half way through. There are times where they don‰’t go quite as far as they could to make Guilty of Everything a truly incredible record, and the vocals could use a bit more “bite‰” to distinguish themselves from other bands in the same vein, but Nothing are developing a style on this record that could serve them well far into the future.

RIYL: Swervdriver, Whirr, Cloud Nothings, Pity Sex
Recommended Tracks: 2, 3, 6, 9