Sundays

"San Francisco musician Hannah Van Loon marries the dreamlike eeriness of the weekend's final hours with the heaviness of shoegaze on a debut album co-written and produced by Toro Y Moi's Chaz Bear".

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"I wanted to like Sundays more than I did. When Tanukichan highlights the contrasts between her affection for distortion and her high-pitched, clear vocals, her songs are much more effective. But that only happens occasionally. "Sundays" is a great example of how her laid-back indie pop can work when she really leans into it. For most of the album, though, Tanukichan seems stuck between really relaxed and more pop-oriented, without quite finding a balance to make her songs compelling".

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"As lots of bands have been only too glad to advertise, it's tough to make a shoegaze album in the late 2010s that doesn't sink into hero worship or suffer by comparison to the work of the originals. Even Ride and Slowdive had trouble! That Tanukichan have come up with an album that sounds original and true while bringing deep emotions along for the ride is truly something worth commending".

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