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Available in Europe via Cargo Records and Japan via Disk Union
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Thrushes premise is strikingly simple. Rock music should be beautiful. Elevating grand canyon reverberation to high art and venerating Phil Spector as the patron saint of sonic emotion, Thrushes craft gorgeous noise pop and swirling dream rock lullabies. Armed with stacks of old Crystals records played at the dark edge of town, this is the sound of blood on blood.
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"Heartbeats" Live at the Lit Lounge, NYC April, 2007
filmed by kevin doyle
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"Trees"
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What the people say:
"All of the staples of quality shoegaze can be found on their debut record, Sun Come Undone, but weaved in between the feedback and distortion is a sweetness that sets the band’s sound apart… Thrushes pull this off masterfully, as their nods to the past serve only as starting points from which they spin their own brand of sweetened shoegaze. Sun Come Undone is a strong first release from a talented band that’s doing everything right. I recommend this record."
Rating: 8/10
Full review at Superstartastic 7/2/07
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“Their debut CD, Sun Come Undone, is a showcase of all the classic shoegaze elements, from texture created through the use of distorted, reverb-heavy guitar tracks, to the dreamlike quality of the harmonies between vocals and atmospheric sound, but updated with a modern rock twist.”
Rating: 4 of 5
Full review at Off The Record Magazine 6/25/07
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“… so beautiful, the best voice you have heard this year. This album is so magical and charming that it takes you to their world and you feel as if you cannot get out from it. This album was chosen as one of the top ten list."
Full review at The Little Strawberry Planet (Chinese) 6/17/07
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"...this could be one of the greatest and biggest bands you will hear this year. What is it like to listen to the Thrushes? To fall in love at first hearing and to have to go back and play them again immediately. To feel that the Jesus and Mary Chain, and the best shoegazing records you ever heard... brought together with the wonder of Mogwai's 'Mogwai Fear Satan' in the space of four minute songs. Not only is this a band to fall in love to, they're a band to fall in love with. They would have been granted a Peel session if only he were still alive."
Full feature at 17 Seconds (UK) 5/29/07
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"This is a debut album of grand proportions that feels like it has been soaking up for years in seasoned musicians with half a dozen albums under their belt. It’s chock-full of confidence, charisma, and oh so lovely reverb and resounding walls of delicately crafted noise… For fans of Stars, Asobi Seksu, and Broken Social Scene, this album by Thrushes will get you through the night and makes it worth waking up for in the morning."
Overall: A
Full review at The Milk Carton 5/7/07
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"They are a group, not a band... in harmony and it's the totality of the sound that really makes it, like all their champions of the past, from Cocteau Twins to The Jesus and Mary Chain. It all counts and combines in this addictive mix. This is music of the 'now'. It reaches out, longingly, to embrace all who pass by. Whispering words and guitars that more than weep. So I say this - take their hand and they will give you their sound, their souls. All you need give in return is your time, attention and everlasting love."
Full feature at And Before the First Kiss (UK) 5/24/07
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"I was immediately entranced by their wonderful blend of noise pop and dream/shoegaze rock. The foursome have really put together a masterpiece on their debut album 'Sun Come Undone'. Each song paints an emotional canvas of sound, one that draws you in and won't let you go until the very end. I highly recommend you pick up this album, it has made it to my top ten list of 2007, it's that good!"
Full review at Mars Needs Guitars 5/19/07
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"... like being beaten to death by a clown with candyfloss or sucking on a barbed wire barley sugar. Their intense, feedback drenched beauty smothers you in a blanket of emotional, surging rhythms and candy-coated harmonies. Half an hour alone in a darkened room with Thrushes is like a Phil Spector shooting party hosted by The Jesus and Mary Chain (check out 'Heartbeats' which is this generations 'Just Like Honey') and My Bloody Valentine. It's an experience you can compare to getting drenched by a mini Tsunami while watching clouds scud by on a hot summers day”
Full review at The Devil Has The Best Tuna (UK) 5/12/07
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"...gorgeous vocals wrapped up in lushful instrumentation, completely consumed with hope. Highly, highly recommended!"
Full feature at 5 ACTS 4/17/07
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"This week the blogs went nuts for Thrushes' shoegazer-in-a-prom-dress track 'Heartbeats.' Anyone who has fond memories of 4AD will be all over this. Are they worthy? Yes. 'Heartbeats' is simple and stunning."
Full feature at Idolator 4/6/07
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"Baltimore rockers Thrushes list the Pixies, Yo La Tengo, and Pulp among their influences; sound a bit pretentious? Well, it would be if the comparisons weren’t well-founded. There’s a reason these guys have been burning up the elbows charts lately; they’re damn good."
Full feature at Shameless Complacency 4/4/07
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"Listening to it renews any faith in music I ever had; faith that there are still kids who spent high school with ‘Psychocandy’ superglued into their Walkmans; faith that there's still room for black-and-white photographs of corners and suitcases worthy of Lou Reed; and, really, faith that these sort of musical references can still be made with the knowledge that it can be appreciated.”
Full feature at Punchdrunk History 4/2/07
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"I’d give this record 8/10. A completely breathtaking first effort."
track by track review at Olympus Mons 4/1/07
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"Carving out a niche between gothic pop and shoegazing indie rock, Thrushes paint beautiful tapestries of post-rock anthems and severely catchy pop hooks. Thrushes are yet another reason why the Baltimore scene has pulled ahead of nearby D.C. Stirring melodic vocals are arranged neatly alongside juggled rhythms and cascading guitar fuzz."
Editor's Pick at Smother Magazine 4/1/07
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"It’s albums like 'Sun Come Undone' that make it worth opening the mailbox every day... an excellent debut."
Full review at Music for kids who can't read good 3/30/07
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"One of the week’s most criminally overlooked new albums, 'Sun Come Undone', is a reverb-drenched wash of classic shoegaze memories and laser-guided melodies. The boy/girl/boy/girl quartet has produced one of the most sublime and satisfying long-players of the year, and it’s not even spring yet."
Full feature at Read Mezzanine 3/13/07
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"The quartet's dreamlike wall creates one beautiful mess. Chimes ring, horns drone, and drums and bass keep an almost militaristic steadiness while electric guitars reverberate over and under the sounds. The wave of noise crests and crashes throughout the record. The result is angry, haunting, determined, ecstatic, and confused—it's David Lynch on a record."
Rating: 7 out of 10
Full review at Beatbots 3/13/07
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"On the band's dreamy, feedback-drenched debut, Thrushes occupies a nebulous sonic space all its own: Think Mogwai fronted by Mary Timony, with Phil Spector at the mixing desk. Standout track 'Heartbeats' comes on like a cross between David Bowie's 'Heroes' and the Jesus and Mary Chain's 'Just Like Honey.'"
Full feature at Baltimore City Paper 3/7/07
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"Like a violent sea suddenly calmed. The wall of sound and slightly hidden vocals give the band a classic sound. 'Sun Come Undone' is a highly accomplished debut record which should be heard by those that have an affinity for this dreamy droney sound."
Full review at Lost Music 3/1/07
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"... they bridge the gap between beauty and fury. Guitars echo and rise into a wave of noise, a beautiful vocal range blends in immediately below the surface, and these are both complemented and driven by precisely tamed bass and drum. For Thrushes, the beauty is in the details."
Full feature at Covert Curiosity 2/24/07
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"This Baltimore-based band is on a mission to make reverb a household word. Luscious and saccharine, Thrushes' sound replicates the 'wall of sound' like it's a full-time job … delivering an unforgiving shoegaze sound that can often be as much compared to Jesus & Mary Chain as it can Sonic Youth in the 'Bull in the Heather' days. Worth more than just a listen, Thrushes could find their way into your CD player for quite some time."
Rating: 4 out of 5
Full review at Any Given Tuesday 2/13/07
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