Swedish act Pilgrimage Years engross with a shoegaze-forward appeal on “Afloat,” the third song from their upcoming full-length debut album.
An eerie soundscape of guitar feedback invigorates into a shoegaze-friendly wall of distortion, setting up for the track’s remainder with a blissfully textured rock sound. Vocals emerge as the guitars assume a sporadic character, rather than the ceaseless energy prior. The gorgeous, distortion-heavy embrace re-energizes as these vocals pass. “Afloat” touts a climactic shoegaze sound that’s representative of Pilgrimage Year’s knack for both soundscape and melody.
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This and other tracks featured this month can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Best of September 2023’ Spotify playlist.
The track is also featured in the genre-based, best-of Spotify compilation Emerging Indie Shoegaze.
