Secret Shine - all of the stars (Clairecords CD)

Sarah C86 band Secret Shine faded away from the scene post-Sarah but did finally come back again many years later. This was their first album since their shoegaze classic Temporal, which i still have and i still rank up there with the best indie albums of the early 90s.

In many ways this album, from 2008, is a continuation of their earlier blissful noise pop work. "Voice of the sea" epitomes this, a hook heavy pop song waves of guitar noise feedback over an electronically enhanced beat with breathy ethereal vocals.

"Oblivion" is another great track, starting with razor edge guitars with an almost doom-laden melody and moving into walls of guitar noise and then exploding into a glorious blissful chorus. They followed up one of the best indie albums from the early 90s with one of the best ones from the late 00s and you really can't ask for any more than that.