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Glad You Were Born
Heliconia →724 listeners4,421 plays
psychedelic rockspacerockspace rockindie rockspacegaze
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Glad You Were Born, which includes work done with producer Pat Collier (Primal Scream, House of Love), captured the band's distinctive combination of laidback stoner grooves alternating with sheets of guitar and distortion. Whether it’s the plaintive but powerful Bliss, a wall of noise rising from stuttering drums and resigned vocals; the delicately haunting Girl I Need You – music for walking along rainy 4am streets; the bass-sculpted Loose Ends, all jittery guitars, angst and adrenalin; or the hushed boy/girl vocals, reciting some private mantra, of Deep In Winter. A review of Glad You Were Born on webzine shotgunreviews.com commented on Heliconia’s “dynamic mix of neo and classic shoegaze”, concluding that the album “should bring the band some of the attention and respect they so richly deserve”. In 2007, Heliconia followed up Glad You Were Born with a download release Your Face. The band have also recorded a corrosive take on Ride classic Drive Blind for the Clubac30 compilation Never Lose That Feeling. One review described it as “adding a dreamier/druggier edge to the verse, but leaving the impeccable dynamics untouched”. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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