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Fans of electronic-based music are total nerds, but they’re also some of the pickiest motherfuckers out there. I can’t say I always know what they’re talking about, but when it comes to NYC-based atmospheric fuzz freaks The Depreciation Guild…I get it, like woah. To say that the band’s majestic, driving, sky-high pop melodies are ‘reverb-drenched’ and ‘blissed-out’ is to not do them justice - there is a vintage warmth amidst the chaos that makes the DG as comforting to wrap yourself in as it is enthralling to listen to.

The term ’shoegaze’ is accurate but sort of ironic, considering that only 2 members of the band wear shoes to, in fact, gaze at. The third, and in frontman Kurt Feldman’s joking opinion the “most talented,” member is a mint-condition Famicom - the Japanese edition of the original Nintendo Entertainment System - that holds down the drum, synth, and bass duties for Feldman and Christoph Hocheim. The group took no chances in conveying their swirling soundscape on debut full-length In Her Gentle Jaws, either, engaging electro-rock icon Josh Eustis (Nine Inch Nails, Tool, The Album Leaf) to mix the record and Bill Racine (The Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev) to master. The result is somewhere between My Bloody Valentine, M83, and a really incredible trip.

In Her Gentle Jaws will be released electronically and for free here sometime around the release show, set for December 5th at 205 Bar in New York.

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