![]() ![]() Two more Mean Red Spiders albums would follow, Starsandsons in 2000, and Still Life Moving Fast two years later. ![]() A probable coincidence perhaps, but if you're familiar with the aforementioned, MRS craft a lucid, less-insular enclave by comparison. ![]() Places.distinctly recalls the eponymous debut album by Dutch shoegazers, The Nightblooms. Places You Call Home, alternates between warm, pastel hues and gentle feedback skirmishes, producing a relatively low-key ethos, where even an unlikely cover of Burt Bacharach's "Trains and Boats and Planes" meshes nicely amidst the Spider's originals. A little subtly, not to mention a keen ambient awareness, goes a long way, and this co-ed's 1998 debut is a beaut. Toronto's second-wave (or arguably third) dream-popsters Mean Red Spiders, didn't approach the heavy handedness of their denser predecessors like My Bloody Valentine and Lush, and all the better if you ask me. ![]()
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