Album Of The Week: Feeble Little Horse Girl With Fish

The new wave of American shoegaze is upon us. As Stereogum contributor Eli Enis astutely laid out for us late last year, there are an abundance of bands out there right now making distortion-heavy music. They’re indebted to the ’90s totems of the genre (MBV, Slowdive, Ride, Lush) but they’re also part of a generation of musicians that elevated the homespun warbles of Alex G to god-like status and rode so hard for Duster that the nearly forgotten slowcore band seemingly had no choice but to reunite. Bands with this specific confluence of influences are popping up all over the country (and the world), but a lot of the heat seems to be concentrated in Philadelphia, where a decade ago artists like the Spirit Of The Beehive (another of this wave’s guiding stylistic lights) were in the process of turning scurrying slacker jams into an appealing and emulatable artform.