'Spring Tides' is the second full-length album from Swedish four-piece Jeniferever, who previously released a string of CD and vinyl EP's prior to their soon-to-be-reissued 2006 debut album 'Choose A Bright Morning'. On this sophomore effort they hone a luscious epic sound, paying a heavy debt to 80's dream-pop, shoegaze and, in particular, the Cure's dark indie-rock stylings, and combining it with modern post-rock's soaring dynamics and orchestral and ambient undertones. Musically, although it breaks no barriers, it's more than pretty and the tropes of crescendoing multi-layered tremolo guitars over dreamy synth washes are beautifully done. Although they're perhaps a deliberate attempt to further the drifting dream-like atmosphere, the hushed, breathy vocals unfortunately set off too many epic indie emo alarm bells, with their constantly edge-of-tears wavering, pushing the potentially grand into sentimentally grandiose territory.'Spring Tides' is released on Monotreme Records on 20th April 2009.
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