Pink Playground-Dark Bloom

Speaking of Free Loving Anarchists, the label's founders also happen to be the creative force between Pink Playground, the dark yet shimmering synth infused shoegaze from un-shoegazy Dallas. After a few a few cassettes and singles, Mexican Summer (boo!) will be dropping their debut LP Destination Ecstasy in late September (hooray!). "Dark Bloom" is them heading into more atmospheric and moody work, sort of if Puro Instincto tried to be a shoegaze band and actually pulled it off.

Pink Playground-Dark Bloom

Links:

Pink Playground's Blog
Pre-order Destination Ecstasy here, from Mexican Summer

Single Review: Pink Playground-Sunny Skies 7"

Pink Playground is a band from Houston, Texas that has been putting out hand-made CDRs and cassettes of their shoegaze for a little while now. Now the wonderful folks at Zoo Music have released the band's debut 7"; a simple two song affair to showcase what will soon to be the next showgaze obssetion. The title track is creamy smooth neo-shoegaze track that doesn't burn so much as melt into a pile of My Bloody Valintine musical goo. It's remininesient of the Whirl cassette I was adoring a few months ago, if the band had wanted to concentrated a little more on adding a level of atmosphere to their barage of melodic shoegaze. The flip side "Here Comes the Rain" ventures even further into the band's own take on the genre (or style of music, take your pick), creating a sort of "synthgaze" track if you will, a mix of dream pop and Cloudland Canyon, or at the very least this is what the world's slowest shoegaze song sounds like. This is pour headphone music, just something to get lost in for hours at a time, only getting up to flip over the single, over and over again.

(mp3) Pink Playground-Sunny Skies

Links:

Pink Playground on Bandcamp
Buy the single here, from Zoo Music