Stream: The Black Windmill, ‘Medicine’
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If there were such a thing as a dream-pop/shoegazer hall of fame, L.A. ensemble the Black Windmill could be the house band. Playing original material at that. The band, built around the talents of Axel Steuerwald and Michael Deragon and featuring Izzy Glaudini’s vocal intoxicants, doesn’t reinvent the hazy, lazy shrouds of sound fashioned by their mostly British forebears, but the Black Windmill does a fine job of walking in their pedal-prints. Following up “The Black Windmill EP,” released in May, the band this week unveiled two singles from recording sessions featuring U.K. transplant Glenn Fryatt on drums, Aaron Stern on bass and Australian Morgan Smith on keys and vocals. Co-produced by Steuerwald and Mark Rains (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club), “Medicine” offers a dose of Mazzy Star-indebted pop, while “Take the Low Ride” is an organ-soaked hallucination not far from the sound of a couple of other “Blacks” — BRMC and L.A.-based Aussies the Black Ryder. Power up the fog machine.
||| Stream: “Medicine” and “Take the Low Ride” (both available for free download)
||| Live: The Black Windmill play the Satellite on Thursday, along with Canadian rockers Elephant Stone and the Killers’ Mark Stoermer’s new project, Mark Stoermer & the Howards. Tickets.
||| Previously: “Memory Girl”
That was a knockout post! i have never heard of them and I am deeply indebted to you for featuring them. This is the stuff I wait years to find, I am beyond smitten with their sound. Thank You!!