Shimmering Stars | Bedrooms of the Nation [ALBUM REVIEW]

If the opening song doesn't make you feel like running around grabbing strangers in the street, possibly whilst shedding articles of clothing, looking for adoration that you so deserve because of that one time you got your hair just right in spite of the cowlick, than your brain probably doesn't work. However, "Anomie" has the ability to do that. Vancouver's Rory McClure-led four-piece Shimmering Stars are back with Bedrooms of the Nation a danceable fuzzed out soundscape in a plethora of music styles that you know and love. Wearing their influences unabashedly on the sleeve and weaving in and out of shoe gaze, punk, dream-pop and whatever weird sub genre of likeminded styles you care to attach there's something the whole family can enjoy. Recorded by Colin Stewart at the legendary (and unfortunately now defunct) The Hive studios, this second album is a fully realized one; dark themes and melodic pop, you're taken up and down on a journey to the centre of the earth and you're Pat Boone (or Brendan Fraser for the kids). Don't let Shimmering Stars get swept under the rug with the rest of the broccoli I didn't want to eat as a child and give this solid Vancouver band a chance.

Bedrooms of the Nation is out now. Vinyl pre-order and album orders can be purchased online here.