说明:
Drop Nineteens – 1991
Review:
Beloved Boston shoegaze outfit Drop Nineteens are still best known for their 1992 debut ‘Delaware’, and 1991 excavates the mythical unreleased demo tapes that were shelved once they got signed. You know what they say, behind every great underground rock band is an even better demo tape. And it took a resurgence of interest in Drop Nineteens to prompt this archival rediscovery. The band initially broke up in 1995 after recording just two albums – their typically difficult sophomore album, ‘National Coma’ was an attempt to reinvent their sound as they were sick of being compared to My Bloody Valentine, but it didn’t quite work out. So years later, after interest in ‘Delaware’ had picked up steam, the band reformed, releasing their third album ‘Hard Light’ in 2023 and reissuing their debut. ‘1991’ looks back to the time between Drop Nineteens’ initial formation and their signing to Caroline Records. They’d recorded two demo sessions that they dubbed to tape to send out to various labels, inadvertently piquing the interest of the British music press in the process. Once they’d netted a deal, they decided to ditch the original songs and write a completely new album. ‘Delaware’ is a great record, but ‘1991’ really illustrates why there was a buzz around Drop Nineteens back in the day. Sure, they wear their influences on their sleeves – the tracks are fully melted with Kevin Shields-like pitch bends and Ride-influenced washes of euphoria – but there’s something else going on here, something considerably more psychedelic. Just check the humid ‘Back in Our Old Bed’, that sounds like ‘Loveless’ played back by the Grateful Dead, or ‘Mayfield’, that hits on the kind of grunge-gaze that Catherine Wheel would perfect a few short years later. These are DIY recordings of course, thick with tape grit and barely-audible vocals, but they demonstrate the creativity of the time, and the benefits that come bundled with limitations. — boomkat
Track List:
01. Daymom
02. Song for J.J-
03. Back in Our Old Bed
04. Soapland
05. Mayfield
06. Shannon Waves
07. Kissing the Sea
08. Snowbird
09. Another Summer
Media Report:
Genre: dream-pop, shoegaze
Origin: Boston, Massachusetts, USA 
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits
Compression mode: Lossless
Writing library: libFLAC 1.2.1 (UTC 2007-09-17)
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