Gloom Sleeper - Luminous Galaxies [ORANGE VINYL MARKED DOWN] - New LP

Luminous Galaxies by Gloom Sleeper Gloom Sleeper return to the fray with a mighty sophomore album – a manic collision of driving pop melodicism, post-punk sang-froid and four-to-the-floorgarage rock energy.On this follow-up to Gloom Sleeper’s 2016 debut A Void, it’s plain to see that the Bielefeld band are learning fast.Physically they’re in Germany, but their hearts are scattered all over the place:Macclesfield, where they’ve absorbed the raw gothic clatter of proto-JoyDivisionists Warsaw; Notting Hill, where the darkling shimmer of Killing Jokesomehow found its way into the world; Manchester with the rawness of TheSound‘s early works and finally Portland, Oregon with its classics like Wipers and today‘s Estranged... plus all manner of other US punk rock hotspots (New York, Detroit, Cleveland, you name it) dribble into the music like blood into water. They’re at their best when the strands unfurl across each other, like when the shredded-nerve guitars of City of Unrest soft-fade int