Like Hung Like Stars - 2021 - It Gave Way to More Than You Could Imagine - (Reviewed)

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1) You're Not Alone, There's Plenty of Us That Feel the Same Way You Do but Don't Have the Courage to Say It

2) New Year, but it All Feels the Same

3) An Unremarkable Day Spent at a Water Park in Wisconsin, I Still Remember it for Some Reason

4) A Christmas Gift for Laurel

5) End of This Story, The

6) [Single] Departing Ships (2021)

"This EP progresses from their demo, while introducing a lot of new sounds into the mix, like experimenting with folk singing, spoken word, and predominant electronic elements; distorting their sampling to a larger extent. Just as good as the last, I can only hope they go up from here. My only tiny nitpick is some of the sampling choices seemed out of place. A small detail I adore is the tape-changing sounds and differing audio mixing that sounds akin Tear Down December's rough demos (very out there reference but it just came to mind).

Lights Strung Like Stars - 2020 - Fall Demo - (Reviewed)

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1) Power Lines, or How We Wondered Where it All Went

2) Like an Apparition, You Were Never Even There

3) Peachleaf Drive

4) Rei Ayanami

"I find myself just blown away by this demo... something about it, I can't put my finger on it. I hate myself for not discovering these guys sooner, I was introduced thanks to The Battle at Kiganjima Island. A lot of aspects remind me of picking up where Merchant Ships, The Kodan Armada and The Brave Little Abacus left off. We are in the onset of a beautiful, emotional, atmospheric screamo scene with so many years of retrospection and material behind us. This 3-piece from West Lafayette, Indiana has some great concepts in the works... I'll post their Janurary EP tomorrow and review that as well, I just really needed to stress the importance of giving these guys a listen as soon as I could. I've listened to this demo like 5 times already."

Your Arms Are My Cocoon, Pictures Of June, Floral Patterns, & Lights Strung Like Stars - 2021 - The Battle at Kiganjima Island

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Pictures Of June

1) Love in Three Stages

Your Arms Are My Cocoon

2) Raisin Lungs

Floral Patterns

3) Highbeams

Lights Strung Like Stars

4) The Endless Windmills