VENUS VINYL OF THE MONTH - JUNE 2024
Release Date: 21st June 2024
The debut full-length album from the young New York 5-piece indie-rock band is here and it's ready to be the soundtrack to your year! Scream From New York, NY sees the band expanding on their scratchy shoegaze sounds to include the sonic symphonies of 90's icons such as Sonic Youth, Interpol & Radiohead (Bends-era), as well as modern post-punk pioneers such as Fontaines DC and Iceage. Urgent and contemporary but with a nostalgic nerve-centre that will make you feel you're re-hearing your favourites for the first time all over again. Stellar stuff!
"Scream from New York, NY, the first album by Been Stellar, is a remarkably brutal debut – bruised and volatile, it captures an image of ‘20s New York that’s unrelenting and harsh, where tenderness is a finite resource burned up by the machinery of the city and human connection is a luxury product. Leaving behind the driving shoegaze of their early recordings, the NYC-based five-piece tap into the disaffected sound and spirit of New York luminaries like Sonic Youth and Interpol, as well as the nihilistic, yearning cool of Iceage and Bends-era Radiohead, striking upon a sound that’s fearsome, buffeting and beautiful at the same time. Determined to break new sonic ground, the band embarked on a relentless practice schedule, even renting scrappy studios on days off during tours with Fontaines DC and Shame. After befriending him at SXSW, the band tapped producer Dan Carey (black midi, Wet Leg) to help coalesce the disparate elements of their sound that had been percolating: forceful, driving physicality; pop classicism; gnarled beauty; and a rich emotional core. The resulting 10-song album announces Been Stellar as gimlet-eyed chroniclers of contemporary youth, staring through noise and confusion into the dark heart of modern life. Completed support of EU support slots on The 1975 tour, announced as support for Fontaines DC fall 2024 North American tour."
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