Shoosh Review at Is This Music?

Shoosh
Orpheum Circuit (Herb)

Swirling synths
Picked guitar and then left.
Soundscapes of uncomfortable beauty
Pulses
Dadaist in theory and practice
Beat with no beat, you dig.
The spoken word unspoken, the synthesis of nature formed and then de-con-struct-ed.
Drone…and on. The sadness of a modulating tone and the pleasure in its repetition.
Explain.
SOUND!!!
Beautiful in its scope, majestic in its sweep yet personal and claustrophobic.
Names: Godspeed, you black Emperor. Explosions in the sky. Fennesz. Yet not quite.

An album of outstanding music. That should be heard by all fellow travellers.

Enjoy.

I did.

Solipsism

Shoosh Review At Boomkat

Shoosh is a trio of musicians, combining guitars and Americana-influenced songwriting with all manner of perplexing electronic programming and treatments. 'Snake Eyes' is a little like Sparklehorse or perhaps Benoit Pioulard - all distorted and twisted out of shape, with a squeaky, obfuscated vocal in place to remind you that you're listening to an actual song rather than the Fennesz-influenced soundscape it might otherwise resemble. The vocal will almost certainly take some getting used to in fact, but once you're accustomed to the sheer oddness of Neil Carlill's delivery (imagine a cross between Dose One and Mark E. Smith) there's an awful lot to like about this record - in a world crammed with electronically treated songwriting efforts, Orpheum Circuit somehow manages to sound like it's really out there on its own.

Boomkat

Solipsism