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Ariel View
12+ albums
rockindie rockshoegazeindie popCalifornia
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On their Epitaph debut Until My Lungs Are Cleared, Ariel View channel the most complex and messy emotions into 11 immaculately arranged indie-rock songs. Tapping into the kinetic energy they first revealed in playing backyard shows all around the Inland Empire, the Ontario, California-based band blends punk and surf-rock into a finespun sound that’s viscerally charged yet gracefully melodic. And in their lyrics, Ariel View share stories of drinking too much and missing the wrong people and dreaming of running thousands of miles away, with sisters Harmonie and Heaven delivering each of their lines with both raw sensitivity and defiant self-assurance. Recorded at Route 2 Recording Studios in L.A. and produced by Joe Reinhart (Hop Along, Remo Drive), Until My Lungs Are Cleared takes its title from a song that Harmonie wrote when she was 14-years-old. With its gauzy guitar tones and languid rhythms, the track unfolds in a delicate reverie that hints at Ariel View’s psych-rock-inspired sensibilities—a dream state that’s disrupted by the palpable pain of Harmonie’s lyrics (e.g., “I'll forget you one day so I could finally sing all these songs/That remind me of you”). And while Harmonie describes “Until My Lungs Are Cleared” as “a song about being a bad kid, and going out with friends and partying and just wandering around,” Nadine notes its intense emotional impact. “It’s this horribly sad breakup song about how you can’t live without this person, and you’re just waiting until t
