BOWERY ELECTRIC Vinyl & CDs

Review: Often cited as one of the best and most essential shoegaze albums of all time, the self-titled debut from the duo of Lawrence Chandler and Martha Schwendener (better known as Bowery Electric) marked a pivotal turning point in mid-90s indie rock, with many acts approaching the genre with more brazen experimentation and a sonic disregard for accessibility. Melding elements of trip-hop, ambient soundscapes, harsh drones and walls of impenetrable fuzz, into an audible seance of deceptively welcoming and hypnotic post-rock, this reissue serves to restore many an avid collector's vacant shelf-space and likely educate newcomers to an outfit as pioneering as Slowdive and overlooked as Codeine. If you're a Numero Group fanboy and Bowery Electric aren't on your radar, do you even shoegaze?