Dublin based alt rock/shoegaze band Blue Slate are back with new single release Beaker ahead of Left Of The Dial slot
Track: Beaker
Band: Blue Slate
Released: September 26 2024
When we reviewed Blue Slate's previous release Wipers in March 2023 we stated that "a heavy haze of guitar noise and and ethereal vocals put Blue Slate firmly in Ireland's shoegaze scene."
With their new release Beaker we may have to extract them from the shoegaze scene and simply add them to "muscular, melodic, guitar noise." After all they are focused on allowing themselves to explore a vast sonic territory and not be boxed into any one genre or set of rules.
For us Beaker sounds like Suede bumped into Nirvana in the early nineties and birthed an emotional, grungy changeling.
For us Beaker sounds like Suede bumped into Nirvana in the early nineties and birthed an emotional, grungy changeling. At times restrained, yet also sounding like it's trying to jump out of the speakers, Beaker at its heart is a simple verse/chorus, build/release song. Like Suede and Nirvana, Blue Slate know how to take simplicity and alchemise it into something magical.
Blue Slate have been spent their two years in existence crafting an ever-evolving sound that has caught the attention of Hot Press, RTE2XM, Ragged Cast, First Contact Music, Genuine Irish and John Barker. Along side UK tours, dates in France and now later this year the band travel to Netherlands to play the prestigious Left of the Dial festival.
Formed in the wake of Covid by John Harney (rhythm guitar and vocals) and Pierce Devine (lead guitar), and later joined by James Hargreaves (bass) and Tim Tora (drums), the band quickly became the centre point of their lives. They were intent on forging a sound that would allow them to explore a vast sonic territory and not be boxed into any one genre or set of rules. The band have evolved by taking a myriad of influences and putting them through their own filter to give us something entirely unique. Their goal is honesty in their songwriting and remaining true to themselves and the message they aim to convey in any given track or across a body of work.
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