• Limited Edition CD Sunday 1022

  Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

  • 
  This is a joint release with Fort Lowell Records
  
  Sacramento-based Desario return with their fourth album and their first LP since III on Test Pattern Records in 2017. Signal and Noise finds the four piece jumping to Fort Lowell Records, an independent label out of Wilmington, NC, and churning out another tight set of indie rock tunes that mines a darker-tinged shoegaze rooted in British post-punk and new wave.
  
  
  Signal and Noise starts off like a lighthouse sending out a solitary beam of light, piercing the night sky and stretching deep toward a dark horizon. That ray in “Lonely Lights” seems to move slowly at the most distant point in its rotation, guitars whirring to life, and appears to pick up speed as it rounds the bend and approaches with the rhythm section kicking in. But the record hits its stride on lead single “Strange Shapes.” The marriage of a dreampoppy, jangled guitar with a melodic bass line and that tick-a-tick 16-beat centered on the cymbals is great on its own. And then the fuzzy guitars join the fray on the chorus.
  
  
  But Desario have other tricks up their sleeves on this one as well. They slow things down on “Things We Left Behind,” a brooding song that echoes something like MBV’s “Sometimes” but with an airy, ethereal vocal line placed more up front in the mix. “Wired Wrong” pushes things in a poppier if not peppier direction. It’s a simple enough pop song where the bass part grabs you before giving way to the repeated mantra-like “everything went wrong when you went away” chorus.
  
  
  Look, if you eagerly line up under the banner that reads shoegaze for your music, then you hope they are playing Signal and Noise when you get there. The five year wait for new Desario is over and it is an album that should tide listeners over. There are enough layers to like about this one.
  credits
  
  Includes unlimited streaming of Signal and Noise via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. ... more
  ships out within 5 days

  Buy Compact Disc   $13 USD or more 

  Send as Gift 

• Digital Album

  Streaming + Download

  Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
  Purchasable with gift card

  Buy Digital Album   $13 USD  or more

  Send as Gift  

• Limited Edition 12" Vinyl FLR043

  Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

  • 
  Limited to 150 copies
  Hand-Numbered Jackets
  140-Gram Black Vinyl
  
  also available from Fort Lowell Records
  fortlowell.bandcamp.com/album/signal-and-noise
  
  Includes unlimited streaming of Signal and Noise via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

  Sold Out

• Share / Embed

about

credits

license